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Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television

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Authors:
  1. Darcie Rives-East

    1. Augustana University, Sioux Falls, USA

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  • Offers an accessible study that analyses the interconnection between surveillance, government, and popular culture
  • Argues that our present cultural landscape is not new terrain, but rather an intensification of established literary narratives, historical transatlantic connections, and practices of the state
  • Draws on television studies, cultural studies, surveillance studies, critical theory, history, and literature

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television

    • Darcie Rives-East
    Pages 1-53

  3. Captive Viewing: Prisons, Surveillance, and Social Control

    • Darcie Rives-East
    Pages 55-105

  4. Policing, Surveillance, and Terror—and the Return of Sherlock Holmes

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    Pages 107-190

  5. We Spy: Espionage and the National Intelligence Agency

    • Darcie Rives-East
    Pages 191-235

  6. Conclusion: Double-Conditioning, Surveillance, and the Future of Television

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    Pages 237-247

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-262
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This interdisciplinary study examines how state surveillance has preoccupied British and American television series in the twenty years since 9/11. Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television illuminates how the U.S. and U.K., bound by an historical, cultural, and television partnership, have broadcast numerous programs centred on three state surveillance apparatuses tasked with protecting us from terrorism and criminal activity: the prison, the police, and the national intelligence agency. Drawing from a range of case studies, such as Sherlock, Orange is the New Black and The Night Manager, this book discusses how television allows viewers, writers, and producers to articulate fears about an increased erosion of privacy and civil liberties following 9/11, while simultaneously expressing a desire for a preventative mechanism that can stop such events occurring in the future. However, these concerns and desires are not new; encompassing surveillance narratives both past and present, this book demonstrates how television today builds on earlier narratives about panoptic power to construct our present understanding of government surveillance.

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“This book makes a critically important contribution in its discussion of the emergence of a new kind of 'voyeurism' which positions the Other´s suffering as a form of cultural entertainment for a global spectator.” (Maximiliano E Korstanje, Critical Studies on Terrorism, November 29, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Augustana University, Sioux Falls, USA

    Darcie Rives-East

About the author

Darcie Rives-East is Associate Professor of English at Augustana University, South Dakota, USA. She has most recently published in The Journal of Popular Culture; Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West and Interpretation: Theory: History. 

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