Abstract Surveillance and/or voyeuristic viewing are central to certain horror productions and are often related to control and dominance. While such modes of looking are usually less obvious in the vampire film, the vampiric gaze nonetheless exerts a more definitive and immediate effect, causing its victims to fall prey to inevitable death and an extended afterlife. Although all vampire films tend to exploit these mesmeric aspects of Victorian culture, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Frances Ford Coppola, progresses the notion of 'supernatural surveillance'. Coppola uses numerous creative visual techniques to accentuate the attention to eyes, notably in scenes that are linked to sexual desire and promiscuity. If the original novel implicitly reflected contemporaneous fears of venereal infection, namely syphilis, then Coppola's film is preoccupied with AIDS. This essay argues that the film's attention to eyes and the gaze not only reflects the mesmerism associated with Victorian culture but also resonates with new forms of socio-cultural watchfulness emerging in the AIDS era of the twentieth century.
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Abstract David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), the definitive film of the body horror genre, poses political questions regarding the limits of human recognition and the disciplinary surveillance techniques employed over the body by ideology. This article reads The Fly alongside H. G. Wells's 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, arguing that both texts are allegorical explorations of the foundation of human politics, through surveillance and control of both individuals and populations. Brundle's transformation leads him to a Hobbesian 'state of nature', in which he asserts his natural right of self-preservation. The vivisected animals that Dr Moreau creates, however, exist in a highly ritualized political system predicated on the human capacity to experience, understand and remember pain. It is a political system that exemplifies Foucauldean notions of self-control through disciplinarian surveillance. The two texts serve as inverted reflections of one another: in The Island of Dr. Moreau, animals are humanized by the fear of pain, and in The Fly a human is animalized by the experience of pain. Both texts are reminders that, as Elaine Scarry has pointed out, pain has the capacity to eradicate individual humanity. They also remind us that empathy for the pain of others is essentially humanizing.
大卫·柯南伯格(David Cronenberg)的《苍蝇》(1986)是身体恐怖类型的权威电影，它提出了关于人类认知的局限性和意识形态对身体的纪律监视技术的政治问题。本文将《苍蝇》与h.g.威尔斯(h.g. Wells) 1896年的小说《莫罗博士岛》(The Island of Dr. Moreau)放在一起阅读，认为这两个文本都是对人类政治基础的讽喻探索，通过对个人和群体的监视和控制。布伦德尔的转变将他引向霍布斯式的“自然状态”，在这种状态下，他主张自己拥有自我保护的自然权利。然而，莫罗博士创造的活体动物存在于一个高度仪式化的政治体系中，该体系以人类体验、理解和记忆痛苦的能力为基础。这是一种政治体系，体现了福柯式通过纪律监督进行自我控制的概念。这两个文本互为倒映:在《莫罗博士岛》中，动物因对痛苦的恐惧而变得人性化，而在《苍蝇》中，人类因痛苦的经历而变得动物化。正如伊莱恩·斯卡里(Elaine Scarry)所指出的那样，这两篇文章都在提醒我们，痛苦有能力消灭个人的人性。它们还提醒我们，同情他人的痛苦本质上是人性化的。
{"title":"The house of pain and the insect politician: Surveillance and the body in The Fly and The Island of Dr. Moreau","authors":"Austin Riede","doi":"10.1386/nl_00006_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nl_00006_1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), the definitive film of the body horror genre, poses political questions regarding the limits of human recognition and the disciplinary surveillance techniques employed over the body by ideology. This article reads The\u0000 Fly alongside H. G. Wells's 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, arguing that both texts are allegorical explorations of the foundation of human politics, through surveillance and control of both individuals and populations. Brundle's transformation leads him to a Hobbesian 'state\u0000 of nature', in which he asserts his natural right of self-preservation. The vivisected animals that Dr Moreau creates, however, exist in a highly ritualized political system predicated on the human capacity to experience, understand and remember pain. It is a political system that exemplifies\u0000 Foucauldean notions of self-control through disciplinarian surveillance. The two texts serve as inverted reflections of one another: in The Island of Dr. Moreau, animals are humanized by the fear of pain, and in The Fly a human is animalized by the experience of pain. Both texts\u0000 are reminders that, as Elaine Scarry has pointed out, pain has the capacity to eradicate individual humanity. They also remind us that empathy for the pain of others is essentially humanizing.","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47953045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The subgenre of the science fiction horror has a lengthy history, one that is purported to begin with Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein (1818). In Shelley's novel, the body is a space in which a man enacts his ambitions. Significantly, the female voice that was so prominent in the novel disappears in later adaptations including Danny Boyle's National Theatre production examined here. In the science fiction horror film of the later twentieth century, the monstrosity appears famously in what is now a franchise. Ridley Scott directs Alien (1979), a renowned haunted ship mystery (territory of the horrific). When she is not defending herself from attacks, Ripley must contend with her objectification by Ash, the corporation's representative and by the rest of the crew. A new addition to the science fiction horror subgenre is Syfy channel's adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Nightflyers. Unbeknownst to the crew of the Nightflyer, the former captain of the ship, Cynthia, has had her consciousness transferred to the ship and she is watching everyone. Like Ripley, the Nightflyer's female characters ‐ Agatha, Melantha and Cynthia ‐ are subjected to others' fear of the unknown, namely the changing roles for women and how that will impact their societal construction. Here, I will examine the body on display. This essay is primarily interested in the female characters and whether or not they are empowered or violated by the act of looking or violated.
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{"title":"Whistleblowers and journalistic ideals: Surveillance, Snowden and the meta-coverage of journalism","authors":"E. Eide, Risto Kunelius","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.75_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.75_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NL.16.1.75_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43382378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this article is to analyse and compare how technologies of media monitoring have been imagined as seeing devices at two turning points in media history – around 1900 and in the 2000s. Th ...
{"title":"All-seeing eyes: Metaphors of surveillance in the media monitoring industry","authors":"Eric Carlsson, Johan Jarlbrink","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.23_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.23_1","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to analyse and compare how technologies of media monitoring have been imagined as seeing devices at two turning points in media history – around 1900 and in the 2000s. Th ...","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NL.16.1.23_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45154293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paid or semi-public media? The Norwegian film industry’s strategies for social media","authors":"Ingeborg S. Heggem Holmene","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.41_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.41_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NL.16.1.41_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the growing use of the Internet, companies are increasingly collecting and using personal data for commodifying purposes, resulting in both benefits and privacy risks for users and raising the ...
{"title":"Sceptics and supporters of corporate use of behavioural data: Attitudes towards informational privacy and Internet surveillance in Sweden","authors":"Sara Leckner","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.113_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.113_1","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing use of the Internet, companies are increasingly collecting and using personal data for commodifying purposes, resulting in both benefits and privacy risks for users and raising the ...","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41439661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the spread of digital media, the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies has gained prominence, engaging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences alike. This introduct ...
随着数字媒体的传播，跨学科的监控研究领域得到了重视，吸引了人文和社会科学领域的学者。这个介绍…
{"title":"Surveillance through media, by media, in media","authors":"Göran Bolin, Anne Jerslev","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"Following the spread of digital media, the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies has gained prominence, engaging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences alike. This introduct ...","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NL.16.1.3_2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42326370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privacy under surveillance: Towards a conceptual analysis of the price of connection","authors":"H. Heikkilä","doi":"10.1386/NL.16.1.59_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/NL.16.1.59_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38658,"journal":{"name":"Northern Lights","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/NL.16.1.59_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49234743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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