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Police Aesthetics, Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times, by Cristina Vatulescu

Label
Police Aesthetics, Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times, by Cristina Vatulescu
Language
eng
Main title
Police Aesthetics
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
714569464
Responsibility statement
by Cristina Vatulescu
Series statement
ProQuest Ebook Central
Sub title
Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times
Summary
Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores the intersections between culture and policing in Soviet times
Table Of Contents
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Arresting Biographies: The Personal File in the Soviet Union and Romania; 2. The Master and Margarita: The Devil's Secret Police File; 3. Early Soviet Cinema's Shots at Policing; 4. Secret Police Shots at Filmmaking: The Gulag and Cinema; 5. Literary Theory and the Secret Police: Writing and Estranging the Self; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Index;
Content
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