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Torture in motion pictures.
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Torture on television.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
| Media |
computer c |
| Carrier |
online resource cr |
| Contents |
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. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Flynn, Michael, 1962-
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Salek, Fabiola F.
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| ISBN |
9780231526975 (e-book) |
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0231526970 (e-book) |
| Other # |
EB00640062 Recorded Books |
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