Legacies of the degraded image in violent digital media

• Main Author: Bender, Stuart Marshall
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Violence on television ; Violence in mass media > Public opinion ; Violence in motion pictures > Public opinion ; Violence on television > Public opinion; 303.60943 BEN 2017
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/90083
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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.