Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media
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Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media

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Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media by Stuart Marshall Bender in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319644585
eBook ISBN
9783319644592
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction
  4. Chapter 2 They Shoot Pixels Don’t They? Killing Pixels from Patriot Games to Collateral Murder and Call of Duty
  5. Chapter 3 Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media
  6. Chapter 4 Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos
  7. Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007)
  8. Chapter 6 Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma
  9. Chapter 7 Conclusion
  10. Index