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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808511003321

Autore

McGrath John E (John Edward), <1962->

Titolo

Loving big brother : performance, privacy and surveillance space / / John E. McGrath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-47688-4

1-134-47687-6

0-203-64248-1

1-280-02598-0

0-415-27538-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

306.48

Soggetti

Electronic surveillance - Social aspects

Electronics in crime prevention - Social aspects

Privacy, Right of

Technology and the arts

Video recording in the theater

Popular culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Loving Big Brother; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: thinking surveillance; 1. An ideology of crime; 2. Perverting privacy; 3. Accidental death; 4. Dimensions, doubles and data: producing surveillance space; 5. Staging the spectator; 6. Encountering surveillance; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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