The Voice of the Old Frontier

The Voice of the Old Frontier
Author: R. W. G. Vail
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512819093

This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.

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

Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television
Author: Darcie Rives-East
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030169006

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.