Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold

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-sc ne techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137399171
• ISBN13: 9781137399175
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 6.3"