Alex Adams

Political Torture in Popular Culture

The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780367876586
• ISBN-10: 0367876582
• Artikelnr.: 58439516

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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)