Popular and trendy subject at the moment--ties into viewers' obsession with reality TV, i.e. Survivor, Meet the Parents, The BachelorDeals with surveillance in a range of contexts, including performance art, visual art, crime, sexuality and death

John E. McGrath is Artistic Director of Manchester's groundbreaking Contact Theatre, which brings bold new performance to diverse young audiences. He has directed work by Lemn Sissay, Jeff Noon and others. In both theatre and theoretical work he focuses on the intersections of space, media and language.

Introduction; Chapter 1 An Ideology of Crime; Chapter 2 Perverting Privacy; Chapter 3 Accidental Death; Chapter 4 Dimensions, Doubles and Data; Chapter 5 Staging the Spectator; Chapter 6 Encountering Surveillance;