Political torture in popular culture : the role of representations in the post-9/11 torture debate
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Political torture in popular culture : the role of representations in the post-9/11 torture debate
（Popular culture and world politics）
Routledge, 2016
- : hbk
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested.
Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human rights-based arguments that torture is never morally permissible. He examines the philosophical foundations of pro- and anti-torture positions, looking at their manifestations in a range of literary, filmic and popular cultural texts, and assesses the material effects of these representations. Literary novels, televisual texts, films, and critical theoretical discourse are all covered, focusing on the ways that aesthetic and textual strategies are mobilised to create specific political effects.
This book is the first sustained analysis of the torture debate and the role that cultural narratives and representations play within it. It will be of great use to scholars interested in the emerging canon of post-9/11 cultural texts about torture, as well as scholars and students working in politics, history, geography, human rights, international relations, and terrorism studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and film studies.
目次
Introduction
PART ONE: CONTEXT
1: The Torture Debate
Torture
Islamophobia
Representation
2: Camp, Colony, Counterterrorism
Space
Power
Bodies
PART TWO: TEXT
3: Another Indochina
Memory
The Centurions (1960)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Little Soldier (1960/63)
4: The Ticking Bomb and Beyond
24: Day Two (2002-3)
Rendition (2007)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
5: The War Prison
Guantanamo (2004)
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
Conclusion
Complicit (2013)
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