Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media
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 wa...
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-556462017-08-24T02:19:50Z Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media Bender, Stuart 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. 2017 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55646 http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319644585 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Bender, Stuart Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title | Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title_full | Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title_fullStr | Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title_short | Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media |
| title_sort | legacies of the degraded image in violent digital media |
| url | http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319644585 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55646 |