Legacies of the degraded image in violent digital media. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stuart Marshall Bender.
• Authors: Bender, Stuart
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 303.6; Violence in mass media -- Public opinion; Violence in motion pictures -- Public opinion; Violence on television -- Public opinion; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Violence in mass media -- Public opinion; Violence on television -- Public opinion; Social Science -- Media Studies; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Social Science -- General; Media studies; Film theory & criticism; Film, TV & radio; Cultural studies; Film genres; Communication; Motion pictures; Film: styles & genres; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319644592; 3319644599
• Related ISBNs: 9783319644585; 3319644580
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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