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This 3 page paper uses Catherine Liu’s article on the genealogy of privacy to discuss how privacy issues are depicted in film, specifically The Truman Show. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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her article "A Brief Genealogy of Privacy" and uses the piece as a springboard for further discussion of The Truman Show. Discussion Lius attitude toward privacy and film, and
the technology depicted therein, can be found in the full title of the piece. It is "A Brief Genealogy of Privacy: CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big
Brother." The term "CTRL [Space]" is a computer operation and in fact, much of Lius work discusses the way in which technology has become such a part of society that
we have given over some of our rights to it. The subtitle also indicates that surveillance has existed for hundreds of years ("Bentham" is Jeremy Bentham, the architect of the
Utilitarian philosophy); the only difference is that todays technology makes it almost ubiquitous as well as secretive. People can be watched today without knowing theyre being observed, and that is
disturbing, particularly when the agency doing the surveillance is the government, which has significant power over a citizens freedom of movement. It must be said that Lius article is extremely
dense and somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she seems to have
been vaccinated with a thesaurus: why use "mimetic" when "copying" will do? Her pretentious style sends readers running for a dictionary and makes reading the article a chore rather than
a pleasure. However, if a reader can overlook these flaws, she provides some food for thought. We may shake our heads at the current propensity for people to allow
TV cameras to record their most intimate moments; in addition, it seems that some of the shows ("Jon and Kate Plus Eight" for instance) exist only because the people involved
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