TALK: Anxious Omni Science: Surveillance as Narrative Form
Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University / Getty Research Institute)
Wednesday, February 23 / 4:30 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
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Taking cinema as a case study, this lecture will explore how surveillance manifests itself on film not only thematically (as in Rear Window or Enemy of the State) but above all structurally as a means of recasting certain key narrative operations. Close readings of selected scenes from a wide range of films (Thelma & Louise, The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The Conversation, Ocean's 11, Snake Eyes, Time Code) will examine the changing narrative functions of surveillance as it moves from video tape to so-called "real-time" monitoring (CCTV) and finally to dataveillance.

Sponsored by the Department of Film Studies, Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, and the IHC. With the participation of The Film and Media Studies Colloquium Series

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