themselves. Digital media makers can be less concerned with creating content that reaches privileged out-group members and create content that is for their own networks. This work is less about creating positive or respectable images that would appeal to
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Brian Bergen-Aurand
This is a special issue on surveilled bodies, with five articles guest edited by Ira Allen, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies at Northern Arizona University and Assistant Editor of Screen Bodies. The question here is one of how screens and bodies are brought together through surveillance (visual and otherwise), how surveillance hails the body to attend to it (beckons us to catch a glimpse of here or there) even as it hides itself from the body, working to be noticed yet remaining unnoticed, in order to keep us “on our toes.” In this light, surveillance is not only about investigating, examining, logging, and controlling the body but also about bringing the body into being as a body-to-be-surveilled, about interpolating the body into becoming evermore surveillable in ever-more granular ways.
Peter Lurie, Antonio Sanna, Hansen Hsu, Ella Houston, and Kristof van Baarle
ambitious while being both selective and representative of American cinema broadly speaking. The future of digital media is not clear; yet neither, quite, is the cinema’s past, particularly at the junctures Maurice treats and whose ideological fault lines
Editorial
Screening Vulnerability
Brian Bergen-Aurand
of this issue. We hope their visions and commitment to the study of bodies and screens will see us through to a new stage in the evolution of Screen Bodies . Ira Allen teaches rhetoric, writing, and digital media studies at Northern Arizona
Lieke Hettinga and Terrance Wooten
using their own counter-technologies—multimedia performance and film/video, digital art, popular literary memoir, and digital media. Each chapter is networked together in a nonlinear fashion, and sometimes the order seems intentionally and productively
On Shock Therapy
Modernist Aesthetics and American Underground Film
William Solomon
environment. Before bringing Benjamin’s hermeneutic contention to bear on the work of two American underground filmmakers who were active in the 1960s, I would like to take a final detour through a contemporary use of digital media in the hope of further
Brian Bergen-Aurand
on bodies in relation to screens large and small: “cinemautism” by Steven Eastwood, online revenge pornography by Emma Celeste Bedor, the human body as raw material by John Marmysz, and black women’s digital media by Moya Bailey. It also contains two
Ling Tang, Jun Zubillaga-Pow, Hans Rollmann, Amber Jamilla Musser, Shannon Scott, and Kristen Sollée
technology, the term “afterglow” accurately describes the ambivalence and comprehensiveness of erotica in the paradoxical digital media in China. The five chapters respectively explain (1) how the diverse porn taste of women in China and Hong Kong
“There’s nothing makeup cannot do”
Women Beauty Vloggers’ Self-Representations, Transformations, and #thepowerofmakeup
Michele White
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