
Surveillance Noir
Being Watched in Twenty-First-Century Film and Literature
David Riddle Watson(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 4. June 2026
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Hardback
75 pages
978-1-009-56569-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the preface to Feminist Surveillance, Mark Andrejevic argues: 'if in the physical environment the pressing issue of the next several decades is likely to be the dramatic transformation of the global climate, in the social realm, the main issue will be the shifting surveillance climate.' This Element outlines this emerging climate by articulating a subgenre that may be termed 'Surveillance Noir.' Surveillance Noir traces the effects of living in a world where individuals are judged through their data, which is continually and often invisibly collected, interpreted, and redistributed throughout a network. This installment examines these effects by exploring the relationship between contemporary fiction - including The Candy House, Against a Loveless World and Shadow Ticket - and developments in international politics. Specifically, it considers the impact of surveillance regimes on the bodies of women and minority groups, as well as the broader threat that surveillance technologies pose to individual agency.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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sewn/stitched
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-56569-1 (9781009565691)
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Content
1. Surveillance noir: an introduction; 2. Born under the USA: Gilead and Palestine; 3. Masters of war: CIA, FBI, and human resources; 4. Paranoid android: the dangers of digital surveillance; 5. Twilight zone redux: black mirror's reflection; 6. Pynchon: prophet of surveillance noir; References.