Legacies of the degraded image in violent digital media / Stuart Marshall Bender.
Bender, Stuart, author.
2017
P96.V5 B46 2017
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Title Legacies of the degraded image in violent digital media / Stuart Marshall Bender.
Author Bender, Stuart, author.
ISBN 9783319644592 (electronic book)
3319644599 (electronic book)
9783319644585
3319644580
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64459-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-64459-2 doi
Call Number P96.V5 B46 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.6
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. 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.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract ; Degraded and Poor Imagery: Adding Impact; Structure and Scope; References; Chapter 2 They Shoot Pixels Don't They? Killing Pixels from Patriot Games to Collateral Murder and Call of Duty; Abstract ; Transmission Vérité, Poor Images, and Digitized Death; Hot, Cold, and Fatal; Collateral Murder, Videogames, and Defamiliarization; Capture and Kill; References; Chapter 3 Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media; Abstract ; I Filmed the Shooting See Facebook

Don't Look Now-Avoiding or Promoting Notoriety and the Will-to-RepresentationPerformance Killing on Camera; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos; Abstract ; The Islamic State, Social Media, and the Visual Aesthetic of Brutality; Hardly Hollywood; Conclusion: Pixelated Simulacra; References; Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007); Abstract ; Sousveillance Aesthetics; Sousveillance: Empowerment and Violence; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma; Abstract

The Drone Warfare GenreThe Drone Warfare Genre: 'Bodies and Places'; Aesthetics of an Attack: Setting up and Exploding; Digital Death and Vicarious Trauma; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Abstract ; The Legacy of Corrupt Imagery; The Contemporary Legacy; References; Index

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