| Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Bender, Stuart Marshall (Author) |
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ISBN: 331987800X ISBN-13: 9783319878003 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Television - Genres - General |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| Physical Information: 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |