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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York, NY :Columbia University Press,
    UID:
    edocfu_9958352089402883
    Format: 1 online resource(200 p.) : , illustrations.
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
    Edition: System requirements: Web browser.
    Edition: Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
    ISBN: 9780231539142
    Content: 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.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , 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 -- , Index , In English.
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    [New York] :Columbia University Press,
    UID:
    almahu_9947545698602882
    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9780231539142 (ebook) :
    Content: 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.
    Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780231170710
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York :Columbia University Press,
    UID:
    almahu_9948319930302882
    Format: 1 online resource (201 pages)
    ISBN: 9780231539142 (e-book)
    Note: 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.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Neroni, Hilary. Subject of torture : psychoanalysis and biopolitics in television and film. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] ISBN 9780231170710
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York, NY :Columbia University Press,
    UID:
    edocfu_9959232231302883
    Format: 1 online resource (201 p.)
    Content: 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.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 -- , Index , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-53914-2
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-17071-8
    Language: English
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