The Invisibilities of Political Torture: The Presence of Absence in Us and Chilean Cinema and Television

ISBN-13: 9781474437004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Berenike Jung

Spis treści

Introduction
The Image of Torture
Why Torture Now
Accountability, Impunity, Amnesty
Thinking through Torture with Movies
Matter and Form

Chapter 1 Visible Torture. The Case of Zero Dark Thirty
The Torture Debates
Double Binds
The Torturers and Us

Chapter 2 Witnessing Torture & Mediated Witnessing in War on Terror films
Witness Politics and failing witnesses
Crossing over to the Dark Side
Visual Regimes

Chapter 3 Television Torture, made in USA
24: Torture on Repeat
Homeland
A Crisis of Epistemology

Chapter 4 Television Torture, made in Chile
Los Archivos del Cardenal
Memory Formations
Los 80: Media memories on television

Chapter 5 Negotiating Evidence
The Abu Ghraib Images
The Unknown Knowns
Standard Operating Procedure

Chapter 6 The Presence of Absence in Contemporary Chilean Cinema
Social Hauntings
The Absent Signifier
Sensual Visualities: Sound, Breath and Touch

Chapter 7 The Politics of Realist Aesthetics in Chilean Cinema
Santiago ’73: Post Mortem
Tony Manero
La Danza de la Realidad

Chapter 8 Cinema as Poetic Archive
Re-thinking Indexicality
Nostalgia de la luz
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Conclusion
The Invisibilities of Torture in US and Chilean Cinema
The Politics of Affect
Epistemological Quests
The Spectator and the Torture of Others

Bibliography