TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neroni,Hilary
TI  - The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film 
SN  - 9780231170703
AV  - PN1995.9.T67 N47 2015
U1  - 791.43791.436352 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
KW  - Psychoanalysis and television
KW  - Television
KW  - Torture in mass media
KW  - Torture in motion pictures
KW  - Torture on television
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/nero17070
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539142
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231539142/original
ER  -