The Subject of Torture

Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17071-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neroni, Hilary (University of Vermont)

Neroni, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio TV-Drama

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to TortureNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

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.