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Police Aesthetics is Cristina Vatulescu's scholarly study of the secret police archives in Soviet Russia and Romania and how those files shaped literature and film. It reads the personal files kept on writers and artists alongside movies the police sponsored, scripted or wrote themselves. The book suits readers of cultural history, film studies and Cold War studies who want archival evidence rather than general history. It is a narrow academic monograph, closer to a university press study than a narrative history, and assumes some familiarity with the period.
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Police Aesthetics examines documents from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc. It takes a revealing and responsible approach to this material. The book focuses on the most infamous holdings of the archives in Russia and Romania: the personal files.
The book also looks at movies that the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. It shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels. The works discussed range from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters.
The book opens a fresh chapter in the debate about culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.