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

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.

• 1. Introduction: Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television.- 2. Captive Viewers: Prisons, Captivity, and Social Control.- 3. Policing, Surveillance, and Terror—and the Return of Sherlock Holmes.- 4. We Spy: Espionage and the National Intelligence Agency.- 5. Conclusion: The Double Conditioning of Viewers, Surveillance, and Television.

“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)