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Author Neroni, Hilary, 1969-

Title The Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs -- Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject -- The nonsensical smile of the torturer: documentary form and the logic of enjoyment -- Torture porn and the desiring subject -- 24 and the torture fantasy -- The biotective versus the detective of the real: truth in Zero dark thirty and Homeland -- Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.
Summary 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 unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases film and television studies singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it.
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Subject Torture in motion pictures.
Torture in motion pictures.
Torture on television.
Torture on television.
Torture in mass media.
Torture in mass media.
Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.
Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.
Psychoanalysis and television.
Psychoanalysis and television.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Television -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Television -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Television.
Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Neroni, Hilary. Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015 9780231170710
ISBN 9780231539142 (electronic book)
0231539142 (electronic book)
9780231170710

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