The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age

<p> This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence voyeurism and power populate film more than ever and the centrality of the terrified body to many digital narratives suggests new forms of terror and angst where bodies are subjected to an endless knowing look. The particular perils of the digital age can be seen on by and through screen bodies as they are made remade represented and used.</p><p> The essays in this book examine the machinations of voyeurism in the digital age and the realization of power through digital visual forms. They look at the uses of power over the female body at the domination and repression of women through symbolic violence at discourses of power as they are played out onscreen and at how the digital realm might engage the active/passive dichotomy in new ways.</p>