Matthew Potolsky (USA University of Utah)

The National Security Sublime

On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television, and fiction, Potolsky argues that the aesthetic of the sublime provides a window into the nature of modern intelligence.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780367671228
• ISBN-10: 0367671220
• Artikelnr.: 60029747

Autorenporträt

Matthew Potolsky is Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining the National Security Sublime 2. Toward an Aesthetics of
Government Secrecy 3. The Genesis and Structure of the National Security
Sublime 4. The Sublime Under the War on Terror 5. The Secret Without a
Subject