All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage / / Peter Szendy ; translated by Roland Vegső

• Autore: Szendy Peter
• 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
• Soggetto topico: Opera; Motion pictures - Aesthetics; Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Aesthetics; Espionage
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Translated from the French.; This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• 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.: 9910154638503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II