| Surveillance Cinema In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Zimmer Catherine : Catherine Zimmer is an Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies and English at Pace University in New York City. |