Journal article
Surveillance Cinema
Film quarterly, Vol.66(2), pp.5-15
12/01/2012
DOI: 10.1525/fq.2012.66.2.5
Abstract
An update of the detective genre, the surveillance film presents anxieties about the War on Terror in the drama of reconnaissance and remote targeting. Hollywood’s latest two examples of this genre cycle,The Bourne Legacy(Tony Gilroy, 2012) andTotal Recall(Len Wiseman, 2012), feature protagonists who, suffering from misplaced identities, must discover who they are in order to fight against the threat of paramilitary data gathering. The two films unload environmental, economic, and biogenetic anxieties onto the spectral presence of the technopolitical structure. But the fantasy of the surveillance film is not that the hero can escape off-grid; instead it is that he can beat the system that made him at its own game.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Surveillance Cinema
- Creators
- Garrett Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Film quarterly, Vol.66(2), pp.5-15
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- DOI
- 10.1525/fq.2012.66.2.5
- ISSN
- 0015-1386
- eISSN
- 1533-8630
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397930102771
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