| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Before 9/11, films outside of the horror/slasher genre that addressed torture depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and often depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture have appeared in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films, for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Torture in motion pictures.
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Torture in motion pictures. |
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Torture on television.
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Torture on television. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Flynn, Michael, 1962- editor.
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Salek, Fabiola F., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Screening torture. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231153584 (DLC) 2011049965 (OCoLC)769763903 |
| ISBN |
9780231526975 (electronic book) |
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0231526970 (electronic book) |
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9780231153584 |
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0231153589 |
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9780231153591 |
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0231153597 |
| Music No. |
EB00640062 Recorded Books |
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