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

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neroni, Hilary, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
©2015
Subjects:
Torture in motion pictures.
Torture on television.
Torture in mass media.
Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.
Psychoanalysis and television.
Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects.
Television > Moral and ethical aspects.
Mass media > Moral and ethical aspects.
Television broadcasting > Moral and ethical aspects.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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.

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