Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times (repost)
Cristina Vatulescu, "Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times"
Publisher: Stanford University Press | ISBN: 0804760802 | 2010 | PDF | 264 pages | 6.9 MB
Publisher: Stanford University Press | ISBN: 0804760802 | 2010 | PDF | 264 pages | 6.9 MB
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored.