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26 octobre 2021
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Rémi Lauvin, « Neutralizing the Surveillant Gaze: Parades of the Filmic Body », InMedia, ID : 10.4000/inmedia.2579
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In this paper, I argue that the figures of invisibility in cinema (vanishing characters, blurred or fleeting figures) invent or reinvestigate historic modes of resistance to surveillance and identification techniques. The art of being unseen appears in many early films, in which characters fool the scrutinizing gaze of policemen. I argue that early cinema plays a key role in the depiction of the powers and limitations of surveillance. Indeed, whereas cinema has been largely celebrated through the triumph of vision, this paper provides counterpoints to this theory by identifying, comparing and classifying the limits of identification that have been (re)invented through the history of film.