Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture
Examines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of torture
Offers synergised knowledge through comparative angle, exploring differences and continuities of torture cases which were documented to vastly different extents
Includes key popular movies, independent films as well as serial television
Combines serious film analysis with ethical-political questions and historically and theoretically informed research
Expands on the latest developments of comparative media scholarship, and integrates the nostalgic, material and affective turn"
Academic work on the subject of torture tends to mirror public debates on its presumed utility
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This excellent book grabs and holds the reader from the very first sentence. Jung's extremely clear and compelling argument offers illuminating insight into the Twenty-first Century's audio-visual obsessions with torture. With exemplary analysis of some of the key films and television shows of recent years, The Invisibilities of Political Torture speaks directly to a world where the rights expected of democracy seem once again to teeter uncertainly. Whether we learn the lessons of World War Two, the Cold War and the war on terror, or whether the reach of state terror expands once again, how we comprehend the role of torture in our society through film and television will be integral to our future. -- David Martin-Jones, author of Cinema Against Doublethink (2018) This strikingly original, engagingly written work adopts an illuminating transnational approach to explore representations of torture across a wide range of US and Chilean film and television sources. It combines, seamlessly, close textual analysis with historical contexts, viewed through the lens of contemporary political, philosophical and cultural theories. It provides urgent, eloquent arguments for understanding and compassion. -- John King. Author of Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-4744-3699-1 (9781474436991)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dr Berenike Jung is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick
Introduction The Image of TortureWhy Torture NowAccountability, Impunity, AmnestyThinking through Torture with MoviesMatter and Form
Chapter 1 Visible Torture. The Case of Zero Dark ThirtyThe Torture DebatesDouble BindsThe Torturers and Us
Chapter 2 Witnessing Torture & Mediated Witnessing in War on Terror filmsWitness Politics and failing witnessesCrossing over to the Dark SideVisual Regimes
Chapter 3 Television Torture, made in USA24: Torture on RepeatHomeland A Crisis of Epistemology
Chapter 4 Television Torture, made in Chile Los Archivos del CardenalMemory Formations Los 80: Media memories on television
Chapter 5 Negotiating EvidenceThe Abu Ghraib ImagesThe Unknown KnownsStandard Operating Procedure
Chapter 6 The Presence of Absence in Contemporary Chilean CinemaSocial HauntingsThe Absent SignifierSensual Visualities: Sound, Breath and Touch
Chapter 7 The Politics of Realist Aesthetics in Chilean Cinema Santiago '73: Post MortemTony ManeroLa Danza de la Realidad
Chapter 8 Cinema as Poetic ArchiveRe-thinking Indexicality Nostalgia de la luzNO
ConclusionThe Invisibilities of Torture in US and Chilean CinemaThe Politics of AffectEpistemological Quests The Spectator and the Torture of Others
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