Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television - Darcie Rives-East

Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television

Buch | Softcover
VII, 262 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-16902-2 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt
This interdisciplinary study examines how state surveillance has preoccupied British and American television series in the twenty years since 9/11. Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television illuminates how the U.S. and U.K., bound by an historical, cultural, and television partnership, have broadcast numerous programs centred on three state surveillance apparatuses tasked with protecting us from terrorism and criminal activity: the prison, the police, and the national intelligence agency. Drawing from a range of case studies, such as Sherlock, Orange is the New Black and The Night Manager, this book discusses how television allows viewers, writers, and producers to articulate fears about an increased erosion of privacy and civil liberties following 9/11, while simultaneously expressing a desire for a preventative mechanism that can stop such events occurring in the future. However, these concerns and desires are not new; encompassing surveillance narratives both past and present, this book demonstrates how television today builds on earlier narratives about panoptic power to construct our present understanding of government surveillance.

lt;b>Darcie Rives-East is Associate Professor of English at Augustana University, South Dakota, USA. She has most recently published in The Journal of Popular Culture; Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West and Interpretation: Theory: History

1. Introduction: Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television.- 2. Captive Viewers: Prisons, Captivity, and Social Control.- 3. Policing, Surveillance, and Terror-and the Return of Sherlock Holmes.- 4. We Spy: Espionage and the National Intelligence Agency.- 5. Conclusion: The Double Conditioning of Viewers, Surveillance, and Television.


"This book makes a critically important contribution in its discussion of the emergence of a new kind of 'voyeurism' which positions the Other´s suffering as a form of cultural entertainment for a global spectator." (Maximiliano E Korstanje, Critical Studies on Terrorism, November 29, 2019)

“This book makes a critically important contribution in its discussion of the emergence of a new kind of 'voyeurism' which positions the Other´s suffering as a form of cultural entertainment for a global spectator.” (Maximiliano E Korstanje, Critical Studies on Terrorism, November 29, 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VII, 262 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 359 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte Anglo-American • civil liberties • Crime • Government • History • Intelligence • Orange is the new black • panoptic • Person of Interest • popular culture • Power • privacy • Sherlock Holmes • Social Control • State • terrorism • The Night Manager • transatlantic
ISBN-10 3-030-16902-2 / 3030169022
ISBN-13 978-3-030-16902-2 / 9783030169022
Zustand Neuware
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