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The national security sublime on the aesthetics of government secrecy / Matthew Potolsky.
| Author/creator | Potolsky, Matthew |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019. |
| Description | xx, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in espionage and culture |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-177) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019009259 |
| ISBN | 9780367208912 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |