Spaces of Surveillance States and Selves
In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, an
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Edited by Susan Flynn & Antonia Mackay
Spaces of Surveillance
Susan Flynn Antonia Mackay •
Editors
Spaces of Surveillance States and Selves
Editors Susan Flynn School of Media University of the Arts London London, UK
Antonia Mackay Department of English and Modern Languages Oxford Brookes University Oxford, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-49084-7 ISBN 978-3-319-49085-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49085-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017937509 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: maja/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
CONTENTS
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Introduction Susan Flynn and Antonia Mackay
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Art, Photography and Film
Equality and Erasure: Responses to Subject Negation in the Art of Jill Magid Amy Christmas
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Camera Performed: Visualising the Behaviours of Technology in Digital Performance Jaclyn Meloche
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‘She’s not There’—Shallow Focus on Privacy, Surveillance, and Emerging Techno-Mediated Modes of Being in Spike Jonze’s Her William Thomas McBride Surveillance in Zero Dark Thirty: Terrorism, Space and Identity Frances Pheasant-Kelly
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To See and to Be Seen: Surveillance, the Vampiric Lens and the Undead Subject Simon Bacon
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Literature
Watching Through Windows: Bret Easton Ellis and Urban Surveillance Alison Lutton
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Participating in ‘1984’: The Surveillance of Sousveillance from White Noise to Right Now Caleb Andrew Milligan
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Surveillance in Post-Postmodern American Fiction: Dave Eggers’s The Circle, Jonathan Franzen’s Purity and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love
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