Beautiful, unethical, dangerous : screening surveillance and maintaining insecurities Brown, Adam and Chalkley, Tony 2012, Beautiful, unethical, dangerous : screening surveillance and maintaining insecurities, Reconstruction : studies in contemporary culture, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-12. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads brown-beautifulunethical-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 287.65KB 641 Title Beautiful, unethical, dangerous : screening surveillance and maintaining insecurities Author(s) Brown, Adam orcid.org/0000-0003-4669-1372 Chalkley, Tony Journal name Reconstruction : studies in contemporary culture Volume number 12 Issue number 3 Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher Reconstruction : Studies in Contemporary Culture Place of publication Bowling Green, Oh. Publication date 2012-11 ISSN 1547-4348 Keyword(s) culture studies media television and film survelliance Summary Many films critiquing the perpetuation of surveillance in contemporary society simultaneously highlight the apparently essential role(s) it plays in resolving social problems – problems that were often created by the technologies themselves. Such films construct surveillancescapes of various kinds – from the physical, to the psychological, to the virtual – and hold considerable importance in mediating understandings of technology, society and humanity. In this paper, we employ content and textual analyses of various films to reveal a rich ideological fabric that engages with vexed questions of identity, agency and ‘reality.’ We analyse an array of filmic representations of surveillance, arguing that significant contradictions lie at the heart of much mainstream cinema, and evaluating the medium’s potential for ideological subversion. An examination of the growing trend by filmmakers to either focus explicitly on surveillance or provide brief, naturalised portrayals of new media use for surveillance purposes highlights the crucial role of film in the development of hegemonic societal power structures. Through this process, we ask the question: who is actually watching whom? Language eng Field of Research 200101 Communication Studies Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2012, Reconstruction : Studies in Contemporary Culture Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049443 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 21 Nov 2012, 11:20:05 EST Fri, 23 Nov 2012, 08:22:48 EST Fri, 23 Nov 2012, 11:28:08 EST Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 12:00:55 EST Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 12:02:29 EST Mon, 10 Dec 2012, 15:01:07 EST Mon, 23 Jun 2014, 16:27:08 EST Mon, 23 Jun 2014, 16:40:52 EST Fri, 27 Jun 2014, 15:37:40 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:37:48 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 20:07:55 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:38:03 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:20:00 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1523 Abstract Views, 643 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 21 Nov 2012, 11:19:52 EST by Tony Chalkley