Waiting to Be Seen: Voyeurism, Surveillance, Cinema

Big Brother is watching, but so are we. From CCTV to reality TV, Google Earth to Facebook, surveillance and self-surveillance are increasingly pervasive features of everyday life that structures how we communicate, consume, travel, socialize, learn, and perhaps most importantly, view the world, and ourselves. This course will examine how surveillance, voyeurism, and scopophilia, or “the love of looking,” operate across a wide range of works in film and media, ... (read more.)