Screening the Tortured Body (eBook)

The Cinema as Scaffold

Mark De Valk (Herausgeber)

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2016
342 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-39918-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Inspired by Michel Foucault's examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the 'political technology of the body' and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment 'for transgressions against the state', the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold elicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the 'retrained' body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

Mark de Valk is the Programme Leader and a Senior Lecturer in Film Production at The University of Winchester. His personal filmmaking includes working with essay film practices and experimental techniques across documentary and drama forms.

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Inspired by Michel Foucault's examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the 'political technology of the body' and 'the spectacle of the scaffold' as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily repression. Through a critique of sovereign power and its application of punishment 'for transgressions against the state', the collected works, herein, assess the polticised-body via a range of cinematic perspectives. Imagery, character construction and narrative devices are examined in their account of hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. Screening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold elicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the 'restrained' body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scene techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

Inhalt

SECTION I – STATE EVISCERATION/TORTURED FLESH.- 1. Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal – Patricia MacCormack.- 2. Torture Porn: The American Sadistic Disposition in the Post 9/11 Horror Genre – Aaron Kerner.- 3. Discipline…But Punish!: Foucault, Agamben and Torture Porn’s Thanatopolitical Scaffold – Xavier Aldana Reyes.- 4. The Expectational Body: The Becoming of the Tortured Vampire Horde in Daybreakers – Simon Bacon.- 5. An Apology for French Torturers: L’Ennemi intime – Nicole Beth Wallenbrock.- SECTION II – THE SUBJUGATED BODY-POLITIC AS SPECTACLE.- 6. The Ideological Purpose of Torture: Artur London’s Nightmare of Reality in L’aveu/The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970) – Susan Hayward.- 7. Mr. Stone Goes To Washington: JFK 2.4 – Mark de Valk.- 8. Giorgio Agamben Meets the Wachowskis: The State of Exception in V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006) – Melissa M. Jacques.- 9. Modes of Silence and Resistance: Chilean Documentary and Gender Torture – Lisa DiGiovani.- SECTION III – FRAMING SPECTATOR RECEPTION OF STATE RETRIBUTION.- 10. Torture Documentaries and Taxi To The Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) – Julia Lesage.- 11. Zero Dark Thirty: A Filmmaker’s Notion – Larra Anderson.- 12. Hypermediacy, Embodiment and Spectatorship in Brian De Palma’s Redacted – Calvin Fagan.- 13. Enemy of the State: Framing the Political Assassin – Shane O’Sullivan.- 14. “She’s a Killer”: The Image of the Women of Zero Dark Thirty.Dorothea Olkowski

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 342 p. 25 illus., 17 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Control • Politicised Cinema • Power • State Torture • subjugation • the body
• ISBN-10: 1-137-39918-X / 113739918X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-39918-2 / 9781137399182