Screening Torture

Michael Flynn is associate professor of psychology at York College, City University of New York, and associate director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the coeditor, with Charles B. Strozier, of Genocide, War, and Human Survival; Trauma and Self; and The Year 2000: Essays on the End; and, with David C. Brotherton, of Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment. Fabiola F. Salek is the chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, ESL, and Humanities and coordinator of women's studies at York College, City University of New York. She is also a research fellow at the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on film and contemporary culture and their relationship to human rights, immigration, gender, and the construction of identity and nationality.

...adds breath and freshness to the analysis of media representations of state terror and political violence. -- Dr Ruth Kitchen DigitalIcons Thoughtful, insightful, and compelling... Flynn and Salek have gathered together a collection of essays that will have wide appeal to communication scholars, film scholars and graduate students. -- Marita Gronnvoll European Journal of Communication This book is a compelling critique of our dominant political and media discourses. The European Legacy

• Screening Torture: An Introduction Part I. Torture and the Implications of Masculinity 1. Countering the Jack Bauer Effect: An Examination of How to Limit the Influence of TV's Most Popular, and Most Brutal, Hero 2. Mel Gibson's Tortured Heroes: From the Symbolic Function of Blood to Spectacles of Pain 3. It's a Perfect World: Torture, Confession, and Sacrifice Part II. Torture and the Sadomasochistic Impulse 4. Lust, Caution: Torture, Sex, and Passion in Chinese Cinema 5. The Art of Photogenic Torture 6. Beyond Susan Sontag: The Seduction of Psychological Torture 7. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as Art Against Torture Part III. Confronting the Legacies of Torture and State Terror 8. "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema 9. Confessing Without Regret: An Israeli Film Genre Part IV. Torture and the Shortcomings of Film 10. Movies of Modern Torture as Convenient Truths 11. Torture at the Limit of Politics 12. Doing Torture in Film: Confronting Ambiguity and Ambivalence 13. Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion List of Contributors Index