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Title
The national security sublime
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Potolsky, Matthew (Author)
Subject
National security--Social aspects--United States (LCSH)
Official secrets--Social aspects--United States (LCSH)
Espionage--Social aspects--United States (LCSH)
Politics and culture--United States (LCSH)
Popular culture--Political aspects--United States (LCSH)
Secrecy in literature (LCSH)
Secrecy in motion pictures (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
United States
Classification
LCC: UA23 .P59 2019
DDC: 355/.033073 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
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.
Table Of 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.
Authorized Access Point
Potolsky, Matthew The national security sublime
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Encoding Level: full
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Change Date: 2019-06-27T13:58:22
Creation Date: 2019-03-10
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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