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Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold

Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold

de Valk, Mark

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1137399171
ISBN13: 9781137399175
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 16 2016
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.94 Width: 8.57 Depth: 6.28
Language: English

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 'restrained' body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

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