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Screening torture : media representations of state terror and political domination /
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. Sin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.