The Covert Sphere : Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State /


Timothy Melley.
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Ithaca : : Cornell University Press, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (302 p.)
Opplysninger
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - In 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing funding for thirteen episodes of 'Eagle Four' - a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series '24'. 'Eagle Four' was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into respect. Why would a wartime government spend resources on a melodrama of covert operations? The answer is not simply that fiction has real political effects but that, since the Cold War, fiction has become integral to the growth of national security as a concept and a transformation of democracy.. - Specialized.
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Dewey
ISBN
0-8014-6547-8. - 0-8014-6591-5. - 1-322-50414-8

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