Umfang:
xx, 256 pages
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780367208912
Serie:
Routledge studies in espionage and culture
Inhalt:
Defining the national security sublime -- Toward an aesthetics of government secrecy -- The genesis and structure of the national security sublime -- The sublime under the War on Terror -- The secret without a subject.
Inhalt:
"Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a privileged window into the nature of modern intelligence, a way of describing the curiously open secret of covert operations. The book tracks the development of the national security sublime from the Cold War to the War on Terror, and places it in a long history of efforts by artists and writers to represent political secrecy"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780429263958
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Potolsky, Matthew The national security sublime New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9780429263958
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Innere Sicherheit
;
Geheimdienst
;
Überwachung
;
Geschichte 1945-2019
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