Screening the Tortured Body [electronic resource] : The Cinema as Scaffold /
de Valk, Mark.editor.
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment ‘for transgressions against the state’, the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffoldelicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the ‘retrained’ body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
SECTION I – STATE EVISCERATION/TORTURED FLESH -- 1. Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal – Patricia MacCormack -- 2. Torture Porn: The American Sadistic Disposition in the Post 9/11 Horror Genre – Aaron Kerner -- 3. Discipline…But Punish!: Foucault, Agamben and Torture Porn’s Thanatopolitical Scaffold – Xavier Aldana Reyes -- 4. The Expectational Body: The Becoming of the Tortured Vampire Horde in Daybreakers – Simon Bacon -- 5. An Apology for French Torturers: L’Ennemi intime – Nicole Beth Wallenbrock -- SECTION II – THE SUBJUGATED BODY-POLITIC AS SPECTACLE -- 6. The Ideological Purpose of Torture: Artur London’s Nightmare of Reality in L’aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970) – Susan Hayward -- 7. Mr. Stone Goes To Washington: JFK 2.4 – Mark de Valk -- 8. Giorgio Agamben Meets the Wachowskis: The State of Exception in V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) – Melissa M. Jacques -- 9. Modes of Silence and Resistance: Chilean Documentary and Gender Torture – Lisa DiGiovani -- SECTION III – FRAMING SPECTATOR RECEPTION OF STATE RETRIBUTION -- 10. Torture Documentaries and Taxi To The Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) – Julia Lesage -- 11. Zero Dark Thirty: A Filmmaker’s Notion – Larra Anderson -- 12. Hypermediacy, Embodiment and Spectatorship in Brian De Palma’s Redacted – Calvin Fagan -- 13. Enemy of the State: Framing the Political Assassin – Shane O’Sullivan -- 14. “She’s a Killer”: The Image of the Women of Zero Dark Thirty.Dorothea Olkowski.
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment ‘for transgressions against the state’, the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffoldelicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the ‘retrained’ body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.
Motion pictures.
Film Theory.