Overview
- Includes an afterword written by Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University
- Offers a unique insight into the ways in which identity has been shaped and defined by changing technology and its resultant effect on bodies. This is the first multidisciplinary account of how surveillance has affected identity
- The systematic approach from one area of study to another offers substantial insight into key aspects of surveillance culture in the modern world, engaging with issues of transgression, gender politics, consumer culture and semblance
- The edited collection speaks to various interdisciplinary concerns such as linguistics, American Literature, African American Studies, Art, Photography, Cultural Studies and Film Studies
- The collection’s textual scope is of particular interest ranging from canonical and non-canonical texts, to popular literature and main stream cinema, and enters into dialogue with each other and other culture and media forms
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Art, Photography and Film
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Literature
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Antonia Mackay lectures at Oxford Brookes University and Goldsmiths University of London, UK. Specialising in American literature, culture and theatre, her work is centred on American identity and the concerns of the 20th and 21st century.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spaces of Surveillance
Book Subtitle: States and Selves
Editors: Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49085-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49084-7Published: 25 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84082-6Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49085-4Published: 22 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Self and Identity, Social Media, Film Theory, Literature and Technology/Media