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The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

Melley, Timothy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismInternational RelationsTrue Crime

ISBN10: 080145123X
ISBN13: 9780801451232
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 15 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four--a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime government spend valuable resources on a melodrama of covert operations? The answer, according to Timothy Melley, is not simply that fiction has real political effects but that, since the Cold War, fiction has become integral to the growth of national security as a concept and a transformation of democracy.

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