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 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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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 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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781137399175 |
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| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication date: | 11/16/2016 |
| Edition description: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Pages: | 342 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |
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