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Cinema and Surveillance : The Asymmetric Gaze
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message.Assembling readings of films by Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, and Fritz Lang, the book considers surveillance in such different domains as urban life, religious doctrine, and law enforcement.With surveillance present in the modern world as both a technological phenomenon and a social practice, the author shows how cinema, as a visual medium, presents highly sophisticated analyses of surveillance.He suggests that “surveillance” is less an issue to be tackled from a secure spectatorial position than an experience to be rendered, an event to be dealt with.Far from offering a general model of spectatorship, the book explores how narrative moments of surveillance are complicated by specific spectatorial responses. In its intersection of well-known figures and a highly topical issue, this book will have broad appeal, especially, but not exclusively, among students and scholars in film studies, media studies, German studies, European studies, art history, and political theory.
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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China
How do contemporary Chinese audiences access art cinema?What are the alternative channels for the distribution and exhibition of art cinema in China?How is Chinese art cinema changing with the booming of internet media and commodity culture in the 21st century? To answer these questions, Xiang Fan explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century, highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent programmers, internet critics, and fan translators.Offering insights gleaned from original ethnographic research, Fan reveals how these intermediary practitioners think about cinema, negotiate judgement and appreciation, construct a discourse of value and taste, and most importantly, constitute a coordinated and interrelated network for the sharing of art cinema.She argues that although their motivation was derived from a cinephilia seeking to forge an alternative mode of distribution and reception, the ‘new’ cinema culture they have produced simultaneously negotiates a subtly complicit relationship with authoritative and market forces.In doing so, she offers an original interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary art cinema culture in Chinese society.
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Electronic Monitoring : Tagging Offenders in a Culture of Surveillance
This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring).With increasingly overcrowded prisons, electronic tagging has been proposed as an alternative form of punishment, and interest in this topic is growing throughout Europe.Current debates and research have often been limited to policy evaluation and effectiveness, whereas Electronic Monitoring examines the brand of punishment from a social-science perspective.This book explores the uses and history of electronic tagging, and draws upon the work of the Dutch criminologist Willem Nagel to reflect upon this form of punishment by examining its functions and dysfunctions.It speaks to those interested in criminal justice reform, surveillance, penology and penal innovation and probation.
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Surveillance
PIN numbers, credit records, photo IDs and biometric measures play a central role in our daily lives.Instead of being mere by-products of public and private surveillance systems, such tokens of trust are now fundamental to surviving in modern society – so much so that our ‘surveillance profiles’ have begun to inform the way in which we think about notions of community and personal identity.In this fascinating volume, Benjamin Goold considers how surveillance is experienced by individuals within both the criminal justice system and the wider community and argues that the convergence of different spheres of surveillance – law enforcement, state security and commercial – has led to a fundamental shift in the way in which individuals are recognized and legitimized in society.Using examples drawn from the US, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia, this book presents a new account of how surveillance is changing the ways in which people respond to crime, their relationship to the state and each other.
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What is camera surveillance?
Camera surveillance is the use of video cameras to monitor and record activities in a specific area. It is commonly used for security and monitoring purposes in public spaces, businesses, and private properties. The cameras can be stationary or mobile, and they are often connected to a central monitoring system where the footage can be viewed in real-time or stored for later review. Camera surveillance is used to deter crime, enhance public safety, and provide evidence in the event of an incident.
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Is Germany a surveillance state?
Germany is not typically considered a surveillance state compared to other countries with more extensive surveillance practices. While Germany does have surveillance measures in place for security purposes, such as CCTV cameras in public spaces and monitoring of telecommunications, there are also strong privacy laws and regulations in the country to protect individuals' rights. The German government is subject to strict oversight and scrutiny when it comes to surveillance activities, and there are legal limitations on the collection and use of personal data.
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Do cinemas have surveillance cameras?
Yes, many cinemas have surveillance cameras installed for security purposes. These cameras help to monitor the premises, deter theft and vandalism, and ensure the safety of both patrons and staff. The presence of surveillance cameras can also help to prevent illegal activities and provide evidence in case of any incidents. However, it's important to note that the use of surveillance cameras in cinemas is subject to privacy laws and regulations.
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What is a surveillance camera?
A surveillance camera is a device that captures video footage of a specific area or location for security or monitoring purposes. These cameras are typically used to monitor activities, deter crime, and ensure safety in various settings such as homes, businesses, and public spaces. Surveillance cameras can be either wired or wireless and can be accessed remotely to view live or recorded footage.
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Invisibility Studies : Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture.Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life.The book contends that when it comes to the changing relationship of the visible and the invisible, the connection between seeing and not being seen is an exchange conditioned by physical and social settings that create certain possibilities for visibility and visuality, yet exclude others.The richness and complexity of this cultural framework means that no single discipline or interdisciplinary approach could capture it single-handedly.Invisibility Studies begins this conversation by bringing together scholars across the fields of architectural history and theory, art, film and literature, philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary anthropology as well as featuring work by a collective of artists.
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The Culture of Surveillance : Watching as a Way of Life
From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines.But surveillance is not only 'done to us' – it is something we do in everyday life.We submit to surveillance, believing we have nothing to hide. Or we try to protect our privacy or negotiate the terms under which others have access to our data.At the same time, we participate in surveillance in order to supervise children, monitor other road users, and safeguard our property.Social media allow us to keep tabs on others, as well as on ourselves.This is the culture of surveillance. This important book explores the imaginaries and practices of everyday surveillance.Its main focus is not high-tech, organized surveillance operations but our varied, mundane experiences of surveillance that range from the casual and careless to the focused and intentional.It insists that it is time to stop using Orwellian metaphors and find ones suited to twenty-first-century surveillance — from 'The Circle' or 'Black Mirror.' Surveillance culture, David Lyon argues, is not detached from the surveillance state, society and economy.It is informed by them. He reveals how the culture of surveillance may help to domesticate and naturalize surveillance of unwelcome kinds, and considers which kinds of surveillance might be fostered for the common good and human flourishing.
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Surveillance Valley : The Secret Military History of the Internet
** Featured as a Guardian Long Read **'[A] fast-paced, myth busting exposé' Max Blumenthal, author of The Management of Savagery'Contentious... forceful... salutary' The New YorkerEVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET IS A MARKETING PLOY. As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit.Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives. But the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience.Conceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives.This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it. Without this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle. 'A masterful job of research and reporting about the military origins of the 'world wide web' and how its essential nature has not changed in the years since its creation during the Cold War.' - Tim Shorrock, author of Spies For Hire
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The Art of Identification : Forensics, Surveillance, Identity
Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity.From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex chimera.The Art of Identification examines how such processes are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation. Against the backdrop of an unstable modernity and the rapid rise and expansion of identificatory techniques, this volume makes the case that identity and identification are mutually imbricated and that our best understanding of both concepts and technologies comes through the interdisciplinary analysis of science, bureaucratic infrastructures, and cultural artifacts.With contributions from literary critics, cultural historians, scholars of film and new media, a forensic anthropologist, and a human bioarcheologist, this book reflects upon the relationship between the bureaucratic, scientific, and technologically determined techniques of identification and the cultural contexts of art, literature, and screen media.In doing so, it opens the interpretive possibilities surrounding identification and pushes us to think about it as existing within a range of cultural influences that complicate the precise formulation, meaning, and reception of the concept. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothy Butchard, Patricia E.Chu, Jonathan Finn, Rebecca Gowland, Liv Hausken, Matt Houlbrook, Rob Lederer, Andrew Mangham, Victoria Stewart, and Tim Thompson.
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How does police surveillance work?
Police surveillance involves the use of various technologies and techniques to monitor and gather information about individuals or groups suspected of criminal activity. This can include the use of cameras, GPS tracking, wiretapping, and social media monitoring. The gathered information is then analyzed and used to gather evidence for criminal investigations. Police surveillance is often conducted with proper legal authorization and oversight to ensure that it is carried out within the boundaries of the law.
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Are surveillance cameras being checked?
Surveillance cameras are typically checked by security personnel or designated staff members on a regular basis. The frequency of checks may vary depending on the location and level of security needed. In some cases, surveillance footage may also be monitored in real-time to ensure immediate action can be taken if any suspicious activity is detected. Overall, surveillance cameras are an important tool for maintaining security and are actively monitored to ensure the safety of the area being surveilled.
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Is that a surveillance camera?
Yes, that is a surveillance camera. It is used for monitoring and recording activities in a specific area for security purposes. Surveillance cameras are commonly used in public places, businesses, and homes to deter crime and provide evidence in case of any incidents.
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What is a surveillance app?
A surveillance app is a software application designed to monitor and track the activities of a target individual or group. These apps can be used to track location, record phone calls, monitor text messages, and access other personal data on a device. Surveillance apps are often used by parents to monitor their children's online activities or by employers to track employee productivity. However, they can also be used for more nefarious purposes, such as spying on a partner or invading someone's privacy.
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