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Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides a concentrated study of how degraded images are created and circulated in the contemporary media landscape
  • Illustrates the effect and affect of violent material as it moves through low-resolution visual imagery
  • Offers examples from fiction and non-fiction visual sources across cinema and other media forms
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Stuart Marshall Bender
    Pages 1-14
  3. Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media

    • Stuart Marshall Bender
    Pages 35-58
  4. Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos

    • Stuart Marshall Bender
    Pages 59-83
  5. The Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007)

    • Stuart Marshall Bender
    Pages 85-103
  6. Conclusion

    • Stuart Marshall Bender
    Pages 131-140
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 141-144

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Stuart Marshall Bender

About the author

Stuart Marshall Bender is an Early Career Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia, exploring the digital aesthetics of violence. A scholar and filmmaker, he has published work in The Journal of Popular Film & Television, M/C Journal, First Monday and had films screened in competition at a range of international festivals.

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eBook USD 44.99
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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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