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This chapter draws together the research presented in case studies throughout the book, emphasizing the poetic and affective properties of the degraded image aesthetic in violent digital media. The chapter argues that in contemporary cinema and real-life depictions of violence, low-quality imagery has retained a strong affective power primarily because of its defamiliarizing properties. This concept is applied briefly to three instances of public terror and violent crime that have occurred during the final preparation stages of the manuscript in 2017. It is also shown that violent cinema style has tended recently towards an extremely slick extravagant digital style, and thus against this background the low-quality image continues to have an impact on viewers.
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Bender, S.M. (2017). Conclusion. In: Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64459-2_7
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