Screening the Tortured Body

The Cinema as Scaffold

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Edited by Mark de Valk

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, body, philosophy

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 359 pages
6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches (16 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-39917-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Mark de Valk is the Programme Leader and a Senior Lecturer in Film Production at The University of Winchester. His personal filmmaking includes working with essay film practices and experimental techniques across documentary and drama forms.

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan