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Full Description
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
Contents
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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