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The national security sublime : on the aesthetics of government secrecy / Matthew Potolsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potolsky, Matthew, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in espionage and culture.
- Routledge studies in espionage and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Social aspects--United States.
- National security.
- Official secrets--Social aspects--United States.
- Official secrets.
- Espionage--Social aspects--United States.
- Espionage.
- Politics and culture--United States.
- Politics and culture.
- Popular culture--Political aspects.
- Popular culture.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
- Secrecy in literature.
- Secrecy in motion pictures.
- Intelligence service in literature.
- Intelligence service in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780367208912
- 0367208911
- OCLC:
- 1091688681
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