Flynn / Fernandez Salek Screening Torture

Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-52697-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Flynn, Michael

Fernandez Salek, Fabiola

Fachgebiete

• 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 Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Flynn is associate professor of psychology at York College, City University of New York, and associate director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the coeditor, with Charles B. Strozier, of Genocide, War, and Human Survival; Trauma and Self; and The Year 2000: Essays on the End; and, with David C. Brotherton, of Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment.

Fabiola F. Salek is the chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, ESL, and Humanities and coordinator of women's studies at York College, City University of New York. She is also a research fellow at the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on film and contemporary culture and their relationship to human rights, immigration, gender, and the construction of identity and nationality.