Screening torture : media representations of state terror and political domination / edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flynn, Michael, 1962-

Salek, Fabiola F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture in motion pictures.

Torture on television.

Physical Description:

viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Screening Torture: an Introduction / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek

Torture and the Implications of Masculinity. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect: An Examination of How to Limit the Influence of TV's Most Popular, and Most Brutal, Hero / David Danzig

Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain / Lee Quinby

It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek

Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse. Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema / Chris Berry

The Art of Photogenic Torture / Phil Carney

Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture / Alfred W. McCoy

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture / Carolyn Strange

Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror. "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg

Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre / Livia Alexander

Torture and the Shortcomings of Film. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths / Darius Rejali

Torture at the Limit of Politics / Faisal Devji

Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence / Marnia Lazreg

Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion / Stjepan G. Mestrovic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231153584

0231153589

9780231153591

0231153597

9780231526975

0231526970

OCLC:

769763903