Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
Cristina Vatulescu
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Description for Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
Hardback. Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores the intersections between culture and policing in Soviet times. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; APF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804760805
SKU
V9780804760805
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About Cristina Vatulescu
Cristina Vatulescu is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.
Reviews for Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
"Police Aesthetics is an important study that should be read by anyone interested not only in Soviet Studies but in the question of policing in the world at large, a question that has become increasingly central in the last decade. One can only hope that the publication of this fascinating and well-written book marks the beginning of a wave of ... Read more