Don't Look
Now is a DVD and Internet-based study of the historical evolution of ideas about
privacy in twentieth-century American society. In chapters on
successive periods in U.S. history, the book describes how
the progress of technology, the expansion of government,
the women's rights movement, the Cold War, the process of
deindustrialization, and the development of global communications turned the public/private dichotomy into one of the most fiercely
contested aspects of contemporary life.
What distinguishes this
book from previous works on privacy is not only that it adopts a
consistently
historical perspective, but also that it provides access to all of
the documentary materials cited in the body of the text. These
documents include photographs, video clips, political speeches,
Supreme Court opinions, newspaper articles, and other types of
historical evidence. By integrating visual and audio resources
into an historical narrative, Don't Look Now will
become the first comprehensive account of the ways in which the split
between public and private has shaped the political, legal, and cultural
landscape of the United States.
