Screen LibraryLegacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media /
This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence. Through a series of case studies, the book explores examples of corrupted digital imagery that range from mainstream cinema portrayals of drone wa...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64459-2 |
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This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence. Through a series of case studies, the book explores examples of corrupted digital imagery that range from mainstream cinema portrayals of drone warfare and infantry killing, through to real-world recordings of terrorist attacks and executions, as well as perpetrator-created murder videos live-streamed on the internet. Despite post-modernist concerns of cultural inurement during the seminal period of digitalized and virtualized killing in the 1990s, real-world reactions to violent media indicate that our culture is anything but desensitized to these media depictions. Against such a background, this book is a concentrated study of how these images are created and circulated in the contemporary media landscape and how the effect and affect of violent material is impacted by the low-resolution aesthetic. Stuart Marshall Bender is an Early Career Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia, exploring the digital aesthetics of violence. A scholar and filmmaker, he has published work in The Journal of Popular Film & Television, M/C Journal, First Monday and had films screened in competition at a range of international festivals. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (X, 144 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319644592 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J905 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: They Shoot Pixels Don t They? Killing Pixels From Patriot Games to Collateral Murder and Call of Duty -- Chapter 3: Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media -- Chapter 4: Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos -- Chapter 5: The Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007) -- Chapter 6: Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. |