The Subject of Torture
Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film
Seiten
2015
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17071-0 (ISBN)
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17071-0 (ISBN)
Showcases film and television studies’ singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it
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.
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.
Hilary Neroni teaches in the Film and Television Studies Program at the University of Vermont and is the author of The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.5.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-17071-8 / 0231170718 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-17071-0 / 9780231170710 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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