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Screening the Tortured Body

The Cinema as Scaffold

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Editors:
  1. Mark de Valk

    1. Faculty of Arts, The University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

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  • Explores notions of state power, subjugation and punishment of the (gendered) body
  • Examines current cultural debates over the efficacy of torture
  • Considers how cinema has built a constituency for torture

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark de Valk
    Pages 1-5

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 337-342
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About this book

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 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-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts, The University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

    Mark de Valk

About the editor

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Screening the Tortured Body

  • Book Subtitle: The Cinema as Scaffold

  • Editors: Mark de Valk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39918-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39917-5Published: 16 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39918-2Published: 11 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Film Theory

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