Title The Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film.

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New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.

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Description	1 online resource (201 pages)
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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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Torture in motion pictures.
	Torture on television.
	Torture in mass media.
	Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.
	Psychoanalysis and television.
	Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Television -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory.
	Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011269
	Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027344
	Psychoanalysis and motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01081275
	Psychoanalysis and television. (OCoLC)fst01749945
	Television -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01146579
	Torture in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01904953
	Torture in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01904954
	Torture on television. (OCoLC)fst01895673
Other Form:	Print version: Neroni, Hilary. Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015 9780231170710
ISBN	9780231539142 (electronic bk.)
	0231539142 (electronic bk.)

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