Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

ISBN-13: 9780367876586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Alex Adams

Opis

This book argues that literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has defined the torture debate that has taken place during the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The author explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, with assertions that torture can function as a legitimate coun

Spis treści

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

Guantánamo (2004)

The Road to Guantánamo (2006)

Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

Conclusion

Complicit (2013)

O autorze

Alex Adams completed his PhD in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He has contributed a number of journal articles and book chapters to recent publications.