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Imperial Border Optics

This chapter explores the global surveillance optic that derives from docuseries that take place at airport borders in the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence and security alliance among the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. The various docuseries from each member of the Five Eyes deliver the global procedures, operations, and plotlines of border security. This chapter explores how state and entertainment entities shape flows of soft power animating global border-security discourses and practices. With ambitions even greater than the surveillance initiatives at US borders, the mediated cultures of border security project and endeavor to enact a future of an integrated global surveillance imaginary. These shows establish the imperial norms of border security, enacted and dramatized by human agents through their affective guidance, tutelage, moral judgment, and willed determinations.