Imagining surveillance : eutopian and dystopian literature and film / Peter Marks.

Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on the utopian genre (which includes positive and negative worlds), this book offers an in-depth account of the ways in which the most creative writers, filmma...

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Main Author: Marks, Peter, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
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