media representations of state terror and political domination /
edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek
New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2012
viii, 315 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Screening Torture: an Introduction / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek -- Torture and the Implications of Masculinity. -- Countering the Jack Bauer Effect: An Examination of How to Limit the Influence of TV's Most Popular, and Most Brutal, Hero / David Danzig -- Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain / Lee Quinby -- It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek -- Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse. -- Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema / Chris Berry -- The Art of Photogenic Torture / Phil Carney -- Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture / Alfred W. McCoy -- Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture / Carolyn Strange -- Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror. -- "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg -- Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre / Livia Alexander -- Torture and the Shortcomings of Film. -- Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths / Darius Rejali -- Torture at the Limit of Politics / Faisal Devji -- Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence / Marnia Lazreg -- Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion / Stjepan G. Mestrovic