An edition of The subject of torture
(2015)
The subject of torture
psychoanalysis and biopolitics in television and film
by Hilary Neroni
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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.
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Motion pictures, Psychoanalysis and television, Psychoanalysis and motion pictures, Moral and ethical aspects, Torture in motion pictures, Television, Torture on television, Torture in mass media, Mass media, Motion pictures, moral and ethical aspects, Television broadcasting, moral and ethical aspects, Mass media, moral and ethical aspects| Edition | Availability |
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The subject of torture: psychoanalysis and biopolitics in television and film
2015, Columbia University Press
in English
023117070X 9780231170703
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Table of Contents
Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs
Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject
The nonsensical smile of the torturer: documentary form and the logic of enjoyment
Torture porn and the desiring subject
24 and the torture fantasy
The biotective versus the detective of the real: truth in Zero dark thirty and Homeland
Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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