Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media

Stuart Marshall Bender (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 144 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-64458-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	X, 144 p. 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Schlagworte	Aesthetics of violence • Close reading • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • Degraded aesthetic • Degraded visual imagery • Film history, theory & criticism • Film history, theory & criticism • Films, cinema • Film: styles & genres • Film: styles & genres • Film theory • Genre • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Low-resolution • media and communication • Media Studies • Poor image • society & culture: general • Society & culture: general • Surveillance cinema
ISBN-10	3-319-64458-0 / 3319644580
ISBN-13	978-3-319-64458-5 / 9783319644585
Zustand	Neuware