Screening the Tortured Body The Cinema as Scaffold [Hardcover]

Inspired by Michel Foucaults 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-sc?ne techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.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 Porns 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: LEnnemi intime  Nicole Beth Wallenbrock.- SECTION II  THE SUBJUGATED BODY-POLITIC AS SPECTACLE.- 6. The Ideological Purpose of Torture: Artur Londons Nightmare of Reality in Laveu/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 Resistanl³‰