VERAX vs MENDAX: Whistleblowing and Ideology in Film and Media with Edward Snowden and Julian Assange
Jan 2025 · Filmwissenschaft (Berlin, Germany) Book 20 · LIT Verlag Münster
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This volume engages with Edward Snowden’s (hacker name “Verax”) and Julian Assange’s (“Mendax”) controversial images as whistleblowers in film and media through a reading of Slavoj Žižek’s notion of ideology as cynical distance. Although this book mostly deals with whistleblowing in fiction and documentary films, it also takes into account the rise of social media, as well as the changes taking place in today’s capitalist system. In engaging with a reading of whistleblowing through ideology critique, we can perhaps cast a new light on the state of media and whistleblowing today.
About the author
Dr. Saša Miletić studied theater, film and media studies in Vienna. His work focuses on Hollywood cinema as well as media and critical theory.
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