The Subject of Torture : : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film / / Hilary Neroni.
Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs
- 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject
- 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films
- 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw
- 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy
- 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland
- 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture
- Notes
- Index