Screening the Tortured Body
The Cinema as Scaffold
Inspired by Michel Foucault's 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-39918-2
- EAN: 9781137399182
- Produktnummer: 21812698
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'253 KB
Über den Autor
Mark de Valk is the Programme Leader and a Senior Lecturer in Film Production at The University of Winchester. His personal filmmaking includes working with essay film practices and experimental techniques across documentary and drama forms.
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