11. Torture at the Limit of Politics

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Screening Torture 1
4. Part I: Torture and the Implications of Masculinity
5. 1. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect 21
6. 2. Mel Gibson’s Tortured Heroes 35
7. 3. It’s a Perfect World 53
8. Part II: Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse
9. 4. Lust, Caution 71
10. 5. The Art of Photogenic Torture 93
11. 6. Beyond Susan Sontag 109
12. 7. Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture 143
13. Part III: Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror
14. 8. “Accorded a Place in the Design” 167
15. 9. Confessing Without Regret 191
16. PART IV: Torture and the Shortcomings of Film
17. 10. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths 219
18. 11. Torture at the Limit of Politics 239
19. 12. Doing Torture in Film 257
20. 13. Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib 273
21. Contributors 293
22. Index 295