Loving Big Brother: Surveillance Culture and Performance Space

by John McGrath

Book Overview

In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415275377
• ISBN13: 9780415275378
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"