| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Russian literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Russian literature -- Political aspects.
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Russian literature -- Political aspects. |
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Romanian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Romanian literature. |
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Romanian literature -- Political aspects.
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Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Intelligence service. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Intelligence service -- Romania -- History.
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Romania. |
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Literature and state -- Soviet Union.
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Literature and state. |
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vatulescu, Cristina, 1976- Police aesthetics. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804760805 (DLC) 2009044481 (OCoLC)463307375 |
| ISBN |
9780804775724 (electronic book) |
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0804775729 (electronic book) |
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9780804760805 |
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0804760802 |
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