Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze

Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message. Assembling readings of films by Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, and Fritz Lang, the book considers surveillance in such different domains as urban life, religious doctrine, and law enforcement.

With surveillance present in the modern world as both a technological phenomenon and a social practice, the author shows how cinema, as a v...