Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination
E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-231-52697-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Screening Torture: An Introduction
Part I. Torture and the Implications of Masculinity
1. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect: An Examination of How to Limit the Influence of TV's Most Popular, and Most Brutal, Hero
2. Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain
3. It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice
Part II. Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse
4. Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema
5. The Art of Photogenic Torture
6. Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture
7. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture
Part III. Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror
8. "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema
9. Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre
Part IV. Torture and the Shortcomings of Film
10. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths
11. Torture at the Limit of Politics
12. Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence
13. Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion
List of Contributors
Index