Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dystopian (Super)Panopticism: from Nineteen Eighty-Four
to Orwellian Films
Chapter 2 Closed-Circuit Filmmaking: Cinema in the Age of
Panopticism Come True
Chapter 3 Audiovisual Fiction and Synoptic Surveillance: the
Televisualisation of Life
Chapter 4 Cinema in the Catoptic Age: Visions of a Sousveillance
World
Conclusion: Surveillance Screens—The New Site of Film?
Bibliography
Filmography
About the author
Sébastien Lefait is Lecturer in English Literature and Film at the University of Corsica.
This volume will be of interest to film and media students and can
serve to supplement other film reference works in modern cinema. It
may also be of interest to those in surveillance studies,
sociology, and information technology.
*American Reference Books Annual*
Lefait presents a series of detailed arguments throughout the book
about the intertwined relationship between surveillance and
cinema/television, and our position, both watching screens and
being watched by them. Overall, the book provides a very clear
analysis of the various debates about surveillance and popular
culture, with some well-chosen and closely-analysed films and
television programmes throughout.
*Cercles*
The book is solidly written and engaging throughout. . . .After
reading Surveillance on Screen: Monitoring Contemporary Films and
Television Programs by Sébastien Lefait, [the reader has] a greater
understanding and appreciation of the purpose of surveillance in
cinema and how the techniques are applied in some of the best known
surveillance films.
*Film Matters*
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