Screening the Tortured Body The Cinema as Scaffold
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of pol
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Edited by Mark de Valk
Screening the Tortured Body
Mark de Valk Editor
Screening the Tortured Body The Cinema as Scaffold
Editor Mark de Valk Faculty of Arts The University of Winchester Winchester, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-39917-5 ISBN 978-1-137-39918-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-39918-2
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This collection is dedicated to my daughter, Brigitte, carrier of words & letters…
CONTENTS
1
Introduction Mark de Valk
Part I
State Evisceration/Tortured Flesh
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Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal Patricia MacCormack
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Torture Porn: The American Sadistic Disposition in the Post-9/11 Horror Genre Aaron Kerner
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Discipline… But Punish!: Foucault, Agamben and Torture Porn’s Thanotopolitical Scaffold Xavier Aldana-Reyes
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The Expectational Body: The Becoming of the Tortured Vampire Horde in Daybreakers Simon Bacon
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An Apology for French Torturers: L’Ennemi intime (2007) Nicole Beth Wallenbrock
Part II 7
The Subjugated Body-Politic as Spectacle
The Ideological Purpose of Torture: Artur London’s Nightmare of Reality in L’Aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970) Susan Hayward
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Mr. Stone Goes to Washington: JFK 2.4 Mark de Valk
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There’s No Geneva Convention Here: Torture in Three Films Set in World War II Maureen Turim
Part III
Framing Spectator Reception of State Retribution
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