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The Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film / Hilary Neroni.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231170703
  • 9780231539142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 791.436352
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.T67 N47 2015
  • PN1995.9.T67 N47 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs -- 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject -- 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films -- 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw -- 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy -- 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland -- 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture -- Notes -- Index
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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs -- 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject -- 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films -- 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw -- 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy -- 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland -- 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)