Spooks/Postmortem TV

Bibliographic Data

ID21158029
AuthorsDavid Marriott (0000-0002-7277-7244, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author), David S Marriott (0000-0003-3746-1794, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz,)
Year2005
Volume4
Issue3
Pages307-327
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1470412905058350
OpenAlexW2102643634
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

This article explores John Edgar Wideman’s reflections on the ways in which US television and news media reflect the political paranoias and traumatic histories of race in America - reflections that emphasize the spectral and symbolic life of race in public and private monitorings of selfhood and difference. Read in the context of contemporary and retrospective responses to 9/11, Wideman’s discussion is used to examine the place of racial profiling in the television genre of ‘infotainment’, with its heavy reliance on data taken from closed circuit public television systems (CCTV). Looking at the monitoring gaze of CCTV images, the article concludes with a discussion of its mediating role in UK public responses to the murders of two Nigerian boys in London, Damilola Taylor and ‘Adam’

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