The National Security Sublime - On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2019
Authors:	Matthew Potolsky
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-67122-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Intelligence Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-367-67122-0
Barcode:	9780367671228

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