Screening Torture : : Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination / / Michael Flynn, Fabiola Fernandez Salek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Flynn, Michael,; Fernandez Salek, Fabiola,
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Livia,; Carney, Phil,; Danzig, David,; Devji, Faisal,; Flynn, Michael,; Lazreg, Marnia,; McCoy, Alfred W.,; Mestrovic, Stjepan G.,; Quinby, Lee,; Rejali, Darius,; Salek, Fabiola F.,; Strange, Carolyn,; Swanson Goldberg, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; ‹B›Color Photos: ‹/B›17.

Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the ter...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Screening Torture
• Part I: Torture and the Implications of Masculinity
• 1. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect
• 2. Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes
• 3. It's a Perfect World
• Part II: Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse
• 4. Lust, Caution
• 5. The Art of Photogenic Torture
• 6. Beyond Susan Sontag
• 7. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture
• Part III: Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror
• 8. "Accorded a Place in the Design"
• 9. Confessing Without Regret
• PART IV: Torture and the Shortcomings of Film
• 10. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths
• 11. Torture at the Limit of Politics
• 12. Doing Torture in Film
• 13. Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib
• Contributors
• Index