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Imagining surveillance : eutopian and dystopian literature and film

Title
Imagining surveillance : eutopian and dystopian literature and film / Peter Marks.
Author
Marks, Peter, 1958-
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

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Description
1 online resource
Summary
'Imagining Surveillance' provides the first extensive and intensive study of surveillance as depicted and assessed in literature and film. Focusing on the utopian genre (which includes positive eutopias and negative dystopias), this book offers an in-depth account of how creative writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned other worlds in which surveillance operates, for good and ill. It explores how surveillance scholars have utilized these fictional works in understanding the myriad implications of surveillance in the contemporary world.
Subject
  • Electronic surveillance
  • Dystopias in literature
  • Dystopian films
  • Utopias in literature
  • Utopias in motion pictures
Note
  • Previously issued in print: 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience (note)
  • Specialized.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2017).
ISBN
9781474412339
OCLC
EDZ0001740588
Author
Marks, Peter, 1958- author.
Title
Imagining surveillance : eutopian and dystopian literature and film / Peter Marks.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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