Screening the Tortured Body
The Cinema as Scaffold
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
709 kr
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2016-11-16
- Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
- Vikt578 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor342
- FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN9781137399175
