Loving Big Brother : Surveillance Culture and Performance Space.

In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide...

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Main Author: McGrath, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Summary:In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory. Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as - at best - an invasion of pr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:9780203642481
0203642481
0415275377
9780415275378
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9781134476886
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9781134476879
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9781280025983
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9780415275385
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.