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An essential probe into the culture of state surveillance and its sociopolitical applications to evidentiary functions of all kinds in the process of mediatizing security. Covers a broad range of image technologies. Historically thorough, concentrating on the primacy of CCTV used in the London and Toronto G20 summits as prototypes of surveillance and the politics of control. Skilfully grounded in the scholarship of principally Baudrillard, Foucault and McLuhan. Confirms the importance of images in not only enabling but also legitimizing the use of power by the state. Required reading for law enforcement agencies, policy makers, think tanks, lobbyists, civil society entities, and citizens concerned about privacy, rights and freedoms. -- Donald J. Gillies, Ryerson University, Toronto; University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland Surveillance is everywhere, both as a reality and a topic for debate. It is lauded as a means of protection, criticised as an invasion of privacy, and dramatised in TV police procedurals. But what is it? How does it work? And what is its effect in courts of law? Drawing on everything from film theory to discourse analysis, Jeff Heydon explains all in a profound and important study. -- Toby Miller, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Murdoch University

“An essential probe into the culture of state surveillance and its sociopolitical applications to evidentiary functions of all kinds in the process of mediatizing security. Covers a broad range of image technologies. Historically thorough, concentrating on the primacy of CCTV used in the London and Toronto G20 summits as prototypes of surveillance and the politics of control. Skilfully grounded in the scholarship of principally Baudrillard, Foucault and McLuhan. Confirms the importance of images in not only enabling but also legitimizing the use of power by the state. Required reading for law enforcement agencies, policy makers, think tanks, lobbyists, civil society entities, and citizens concerned about privacy, rights and freedoms.” -- Donald J. Gillies, Ryerson University, Toronto; University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland “Surveillance is everywhere, both as a reality and a topic for debate. It is lauded as a means of protection, criticised as an invasion of privacy, and dramatised in TV police procedurals. But what is it? How does it work? And what is its effect in courts of law? Drawing on everything from film theory to discourse analysis, Jeff Heydon explains all in a profound and important study.” -- Toby Miller, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Murdoch University

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Jeff Heydon teaches in the Communications Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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