{"product_id":"imagining-surveillance-peter-marks-9781474426558","title":"Imagining Surveillance: Eutopian and Dystopian Literature and Film \/]cpeter Marks","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritically assesses how literary and cinematic eutopias and dystopias have imagined and evaluated surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagining 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, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative worlds in which surveillance in various forms plays a key concern. Ranging from Thomas More's genre-defining \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e to Spike Jones' provocative film \u003ci\u003eHer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImagining Surveillance\u003c\/i\u003e explores the long history of surveillance in creative texts well before and after George Orwell's iconic \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e. It fits that key novel into a five hundred year narrative that includes some of the most provocative and inventive accounts of surveillance as it is and as it might be in the future. The book explains the sustained use of these works by surveillance scholars, but goes much further and deeper in explicating their brilliant and challenging diversity. With chapters on surveillance studies, surveillance in utopias before Orwell, \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e itself, and utopian texts post-Orwell that deal with visibility, spaces, identity, technology and the shape of things to come, \u003ci\u003eImagining Surveillance\u003c\/i\u003e sits firmly in the emerging cultural studies of surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first sustained account of the representation of surveillance in eutopian and dystopian literature and film\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharts surveillance's historical development and creative responses to that development\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides a detailed critical account of the ways that surveillance studies has utilised utopias to formulate its ideas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers new readings of literary texts and films from More's \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e through George Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four \u003c\/i\u003eto Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eOryx and Crake \u003c\/i\u003eand films from Fritz Lang's \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e to Neil Blomkamp's \u003ci\u003eElysium \u003c\/i\u003eand beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474426557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474426558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Peter Marks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058548732159,"sku":"9781474426558","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_018315f3-6d5a-47ef-9ea5-8928669c58a7.jpg?v=1685053199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-surveillance-peter-marks-9781474426558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}