Legacies 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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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2020
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| Online Access: | http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/90083 |
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| Institution: | Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | 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.Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- They Shoot Pixels Don't They? Killing Pixels from Patriot Games to Collateral Murder and Call of Duty -- Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media -- Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos -- Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007) -- Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma -- Conclusion. |
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