Dietmar Kammerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dietmar Kammerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dietmar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kammerer |
| SIGNATURE | KAMMERER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7150-0107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Garrett Stewart, Closed Circuits
A spate of academic monographs in recent years has highlighted the encounters and implications between cinema, television and surveillance.1 What these studies share is the conviction that ‘surveillance’ (a term that each study defines in its own way) is more than a narrative device or motif, whose noticeable recurrency on contemporary screens alone would merit closer inspection. While it is arguably true that the display of surveillance technolo…
Numbered bodies
Police use of public video surveillance in Germany 1956
Every technology has its history. What are the beginnings of public television? This article explores the use of police CCTV in West Germany between the 1950s and the 1970s. In these early years, the public police cameras served three functions: the use of cameras in traffic management; the repressive use of cameras at demonstrations; and the persuasive use of the images. The second part of the paper takes a closer look at the third function: sur…
Video Surveillance in Hollywood Movies
This paper examines the representations of CCTV in contemporary popular culture, namely Hollywood film from the perspective of culture and film studies. It starts from the observation that a growing number of Hollywood films are not only using (fake) CCTV images within their narrative, but are actually developing 'rhetorics of surveillance'. Following the argument of Thomas Y. Levin, contemporary Hollywood film is increasingly fascinated with (th…
Video Surveillance in Hollywood Movies
This paper examines the representations of CCTV in contemporary popular culture, namely Hollywood film from the perspective of culture and film studies. It starts from the observation that a growing number of Hollywood films are not only using (fake) CCTV images within their narrative, but are actually developing 'rhetorics of surveillance'. Following the argument of Thomas Y. Levin, contemporary Hollywood film is increasingly fascinated with (th…
Police use of public video surveillance in Germany 1956
Every technology has its history. What are the beginnings of public television? This article explores the use of police CCTV in West Germany between the 1950s and the 1970s. In these early years, the public police cameras served three functions: the use of cameras in traffic management; the repressive use of cameras at demonstrations; and the persuasive use of the images. The second part of the paper takes a closer look at the third function: sur…
Video Surveillance in Hollywood Movies
This paper examines the representations of CCTV in contemporary popular culture, namely Hollywood film from the perspective of culture and film studies. It starts from the observation that a growing number of Hollywood films are not only using (fake) CCTV images within their narrative, but are actually developing 'rhetorics of surveillance'. Following the argument of Thomas Y. Levin, contemporary Hollywood film is increasingly fascinated with (th…
Police use of public video surveillance in Germany 1956
Every technology has its history. What are the beginnings of public television? This article explores the use of police CCTV in West Germany between the 1950s and the 1970s. In these early years, the public police cameras served three functions: the use of cameras in traffic management; the repressive use of cameras at demonstrations; and the persuasive use of the images. The second part of the paper takes a closer look at the third function: sur…
Numbered bodies
Garrett Stewart, Closed Circuits
A spate of academic monographs in recent years has highlighted the encounters and implications between cinema, television and surveillance.1 What these studies share is the conviction that ‘surveillance’ (a term that each study defines in its own way) is more than a narrative device or motif, whose noticeable recurrency on contemporary screens alone would merit closer inspection. While it is arguably true that the display of surveillance technolo…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)