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The Covert Sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state.
Title:
The Covert Sphere : secrecy, fiction, and the national security state.
Author:
Melley, Timothy.
ISBN:
9780801465918
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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