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Autore: | Szendy Peter |
Titolo: | All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage / / Peter Szendy ; translated by Roland Vegső |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017 |
Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 | |
©2017 | |
Edizione: | First edition |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 111.85 |
327.1209 | |
Soggetto topico: | Opera |
Motion pictures - Aesthetics | |
Music - Philosophy and aesthetics | |
Aesthetics | |
Espionage | |
Note generali: | Translated from the French. |
This edition previously issued in print: 2017. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator's Note -- Entrance: The Spies of Jericho -- Discipline and Listen -- Before the Wiretap -- Overhearing and Diaphony -- A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) -- Mastery and Metrics in Figaro -- The Ages of Fear -- Telelistening and Telesurveillance -- A Secret Conversation -- Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow -- In the Footsteps of Orpheus -- The Trackers, with Hidden Noise -- The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around -- On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death -- Adorno, the Informer -- Exit: J.D.'s Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA's warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalised principle of eavesdropping? This work traces the long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham's 'panacoustic' project, all the way to the intelligence-gathering network called 'Echelon.' Together with this archeology of auditory surveillance, Szendy offers an engaging account of spycraft's representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). |
Titolo autorizzato: | All Ears |
ISBN: | 0-8232-7400-4 |
0-8232-7397-0 | |
0-8232-7399-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824126903321 |
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