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...