Loving Big Brother [[electronic resource] ] : Surveillance Culture and Performance Space

• Autore: McGrath John
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4; 306.48
• Soggetto topico: Electronic surveillance - Social aspects; Electronic surveillance; Performance art; Popular culture; Reality television programs; Technology and the arts
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Loving Big Brother
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462570203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II