1st Edition

Media, Surveillance and Affect Narrating Feeling-States

By Nicole Falkenhayner Copyright 2019
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in the form of smartphones. How are we constructing imaginaries of our realities and of ourselves as living in structures of control? What affects, emotions and feelings do we develop in societies of... Read more

INTRODUCTION: Feeling-States Under Surveillance



Media, Surveillance and Affect



Narrating with CCTV Images



1 AFFECTING FRAMES: Factual Narrative in the ‘Zone of Mutual Mass Surveillance’



The News Values of CCTV Narrations



Seeing the Killing of Lee Rigby, 2013



CCTV in Contemporary News Media Events: An Aspect of ‘Deep Mediatization’



2 FORESHADOWS: CCTV and Social Memory



CCTV Images as Media of Memory



Remembering Jamie Bulger in the Bootle Strand, 1993



Mediatized Memory on CCTV: Prosthesis and Projection



3 BEING CAPTURED: Tools of Surveillance as Tools of Fictional Becoming



Twenty-First Century British Fictions of Being Captured



Control and Care: Red Road (2006)



Hindered Agency in What Was Lost (2007)



Becoming Under Surveillant Gazes in Pigeon English (2011)



Twenty-First Century Feeling-States



4 CCTV ART: Playing with Surveillance Actor-Networks



Entanglements in the Video Surveillance Set-Up



Manu Luksch: Faceless (2007)



Jill Magid: Evidence Locker (2004)



Bringing Selves Towards Things



CONCLUSION: Surveillance as an ‘Affective Arrangement’ of Contemporary Lifeworlds



Surveillance and ‘Deep Mediatization’

Biography

Nicole Falkenhayner is a senior lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.