| Description |
viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Analysis |
Documentaries |
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Essays |
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Films |
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Overseas item |
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Television programs |
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Torture |
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Violence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Torture in motion pictures.
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Torture on television.
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| Author |
Flynn, Michael, 1962-
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Salek, Fabiola F.
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| LC no. |
2011049965 |
| ISBN |
0231153589 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231153597 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0231526970 (ebook) |
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9780231153584 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231153591 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780231526975 (ebook) |
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