Introduction - Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold

Mark De Valk

Introduction - Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold

Mark De Valk

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Abstract

An overview of the chapters in this essay collection; here, drawing from Foucault's notions on the 'subjugated body' to examine a range of cinematic artefacts that narrativise and document state-punishment and control over the corporeal body and body-politic.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold
Place of Publication	London
Chapter	1
Pages	1 - 5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-39918-2
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2016

Keywords

Film Studies
state power
torture
Foucault
punishment of the (gendered) body

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