03116nam 22006495 450 991081832630332120230807210251.010.7312/nero17070(CKB)2670000000612274(EBL)1985529(StDuBDS)EDZ0001252338(DE-B1597)458449(OCoLC)979751969(DE-B1597)9780231539142(MiAaPQ)EBC1985529(EXLCZ)99267000000061227420190708d2015 fg 0engurnnu---|u||urdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Subject of Torture Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film /Hilary NeroniNew York, NY :Columbia University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-53914-2 0-231-17071-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexConsidering 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.Mass mediaMoral and ethical aspectsMotion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsPsychoanalysis and motion picturesPsychoanalysis and televisionTelevisionMoral and ethical aspectsTorture in mass mediaTorture in motion picturesTorture on televisionMass mediaMotion picturesPsychoanalysis and motion pictures.Psychoanalysis and television.TelevisionTorture in mass media.Torture in motion pictures.Torture on television.791.43791.436352Neroni Hilary1037231DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910818326303321The Subject of Torture4089138UNINA