Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9781474437011
Content:
By casting a wider net on the definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical reframing of our concept of torture and suggests that audiovisual products can help broaden our comprehension of torture as an event which includes collective and emotional dimensions and long-term social effects
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER -- Visible Torture: The Case of Zero Dark Thirty -- Chapter 2: Witnessing Torture, and Mediated Witnessing in War-on-Terror Films -- Chapter 3: Television Torture, Made in the USA -- Chapter 4: Television Torture, Made in Chile -- Chapter 5: Negotiating Evidence -- Chapter 6: The Presence of Absence in Contemporary Chilean Cinema -- Chapter 7: The Politics of Realism in Chilean Cinema -- Chapter 8: Cinema as Poetic Archive -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Language:
English
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