Screening torture
Subtitle: media representations of state terror and political domination
By: edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231153584; 9780231153591; 9780231526975
Subjects: Torture on television; Torture in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Screening Torture: an Introduction / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek; title: 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; title: Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain / Lee Quinby; title: It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek; title: Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse. Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema / Chris Berry; title: The Art of Photogenic Torture / Phil Carney; title: Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture / Alfred W. McCoy; title: Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture / Carolyn Strange; title: Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror. "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg; title: Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre / Livia Alexander; title: Torture and the Shortcomings of Film. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths / Darius Rejali; title: Torture at the Limit of Politics / Faisal Devji; title: Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence / Marnia Lazreg; title: Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion / Stjepan G. Mestrovic.