The subject of torture psychoanalysis and biopolitics in television and film / Hilary Neroni.

Contents Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs -- Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject -- The nonsensical smile of the torturer in post-9/11 documentary films -- Torture porn and the desiring subject in Hostel and Saw -- 24, Jack Bauer, and the torture fantasy -- The biotective versus the detective of the real in Zero dark thirty and Homeland -- Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2014034082
ISBN9780231170703 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780231170710 (pbk. : acid-free paper)