Introduction; 1. Surveillance Studies and Utopian Texts; 2. Surveillance Beofre Big Brother; 3. Nineteen Eighty-Four; 4. Visibility; 5. Spaces; 6. Identities; 7. Technologies; 8. Things to Come; BibliographyCritically assesses how literary and cinematic utopias and dystopias have imagined and evaluated surveillancePeter Marksis currently Associate Professor of English, at the University of Sydney.