Police Aesthetics - Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Paperback)

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. "Police Aesthetics" offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings--the personal files--as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Cristina Vatulescu
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 458mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-8692-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General
LSN:	0-8047-8692-5
Barcode:	9780804786928

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