Police aesthetics: literature, film, and the secret police in Soviet times
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Beteilige Person: Vatulescu, Cristina 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press [2010]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Arresting biographies : the personal file in the Soviet Union and Romania -- The master and Margarita : the devil's secret police file -- Early Soviet cinema's shots at policing -- Secret police shots at filmmaking : the gulag and cinema -- Literary theory and the secret police : writing and estranging the self
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings--the personal files--as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states. --From publisher's description
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 247 p.)
ISBN:9780804775724
0804775729
9780804760805
0804760802