Screening the Tortured Body

Mark de Valk is the Programme Leader and a Senior Lecturer in Film Production at The University of Winchester. His personal filmmaking includes working with essay film practices and experimental techniques across documentary and drama forms.

SECTION I – STATE EVISCERATION/TORTURED FLESH.- 1. Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal – Patricia MacCormack.- 2. Torture Porn: The American Sadistic Disposition in the Post 9/11 Horror Genre – Aaron Kerner.- 3. Discipline…But Punish!: Foucault, Agamben and Torture Porn’s Thanatopolitical Scaffold – Xavier Aldana Reyes.- 4. The Expectational Body: The Becoming of the Tortured Vampire Horde in Daybreakers – Simon Bacon.- 5. An Apology for French Torturers: L’Ennemi intime – Nicole Beth Wallenbrock.- SECTION II – THE SUBJUGATED BODY-POLITIC AS SPECTACLE.- 6. The Ideological Purpose of Torture: Artur London’s Nightmare of Reality in L’aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970) – Susan Hayward.- 7. Mr. Stone Goes To Washington: JFK 2.4 – Mark de Valk.- 8. Giorgio Agamben Meets the Wachowskis: The State of Exception in V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) – Melissa M. Jacques.- 9. Modes of Silence and Resistance: Chilean Documentary and Gender Torture – Lisa DiGiovani.- SECTION III – FRAMING SPECTATOR RECEPTION OF STATE RETRIBUTION.- 10. Torture Documentaries and Taxi To The Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) – Julia Lesage.- 11. Zero Dark Thirty: A Filmmaker’s Notion – Larra Anderson.- 12. Hypermediacy, Embodiment and Spectatorship in Brian De Palma’s Redacted – Calvin Fagan.- 13. Enemy of the State: Framing the Political Assassin – Shane O’Sullivan.- 14. “She’s a Killer”: The Image of the Women of Zero Dark Thirty.Dorothea Olkowski