The national security sublime : on the aesthetics of government secrecy /

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale such as gigantic warehouses, remote black sites and numberless security cameras? Drawing on post-War American art, film, television and fiction, Matthew Potolsky argues that the aest...

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Main Author: Potolsky, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge studies in espionage and culture.
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