The subject of torture [electronic resource] : psychoanalysis and biopolitics in television and film / Hilary Neroni

Author: Neroni, Hilary, 1969-
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Physical Description: x, 188 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs -- Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject -- The nonsensical smile of the torturer in post-9/11 documentary films -- Torture porn and the desiring subject in Hostel and Saw -- 24, Jack Bauer, and the torture fantasy -- The biotective versus the detective of the real in Zero dark thirty and Homeland -- Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.

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9780231170703 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780231170710 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780231539142 (e-book)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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