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The covert sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state /
"In The Covert Sphere, Melley links this cultural shift to the birth of the national security state in 1947. As the United States developed a vast infrastructure of clandestine organizations, it shielded policy from the public sphere and gave rise to a new cultural imaginary, "the covert s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "The Covert Sphere "; "Contents "; "Preface "; "Introduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere "; "Cold War Redux "; "We Now Know "; "Public Secrets "; "Mere Entertainment "; "Strategic Irrationalism "; "Representations of the Covert State "; "1. Brainwashed! "; "The Faisalabad Candidate "; "Brain Warfare "; "Little Shop of Horrors "; "Softening Up Our Boys "; "Renditions "; "2. Spectacles of Secrecy "; "Trial by Simulation "; "Political Theater "; "Recovered (National) Memory "; "The State�s Two Faces "; "Fakery in Allegiance to the Truth "; "The Fabulist Spy "
- "3. False Documents " "True Lies "; "Enemies of the State "; "Psy Ops "; "The Epistemology of Vietnam "; "4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability "; "Narrative Dysfunction "; "Calculated Ellipsis "; "The Feminization of the Public Sphere "; "The Journalist as Patsy "; "Metafiction in Wartime "; "5. Postmodern Amnesia "; "Assassins of Memory "; "The Dialectics of Spectacle and Secrecy "; "Secret History "; "The Magic Show "; "6. The Geopolitical Melodrama "; "Ground Zero "; "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic "; "Whatever It Takes "; "Demonology "; "Melodrama as Policy " "Notes "; "Works Cited "; "Index "