All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage.
Szendy, Peter.
All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (171 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator's Note -- Entrance: The Spies of Jericho -- Discipline and Listen -- Before the Wiretap -- Overhearing and Diaphony -- A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) -- Mastery and Metrics in Figaro -- The Ages of Fear -- Telelistening and Telesurveillance -- A Secret Conversation -- Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow -- In the Footsteps of Orpheus -- The Trackers, with Hidden Noise -- The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around -- On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death -- Adorno, the Informer -- Exit: J.D.'s Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography.
An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.
9780823273973
Motion pictures - Aesthetics.
Electronic books.
BH39 .S946 2017
327.1209
All Ears : The Aesthetics of Espionage. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (171 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- (No) More Ears: A Preface to the English- Language Edition -- Translator's Note -- Entrance: The Spies of Jericho -- Discipline and Listen -- Before the Wiretap -- Overhearing and Diaphony -- A Small History of Big Ears (Toward the Panacousticon) -- Mastery and Metrics in Figaro -- The Ages of Fear -- Telelistening and Telesurveillance -- A Secret Conversation -- Underground Passage: The Mole in Its Burrow -- In the Footsteps of Orpheus -- The Trackers, with Hidden Noise -- The Mortal Ear, or Orpheus Turns Around -- On the Phone: Papageno at Mabuse's -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Wozzeck at the Moment of His Death -- Adorno, the Informer -- Exit: J.D.'s Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography.
An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.
9780823273973
Motion pictures - Aesthetics.
Electronic books.
BH39 .S946 2017
327.1209