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Neroni Hilary |
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Titolo |
The Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film / / Hilary Neroni |
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New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media |
Motion pictures |
Psychoanalysis and motion pictures |
Psychoanalysis and television |
Television |
Torture in mass media |
Torture in motion pictures |
Torture on television |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs -- 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject -- 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films -- 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw -- 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy -- 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland -- 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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