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 |
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| 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