Screening The Tortured Body The Cinema As Scaffold

Inspired By Michel Foucaults 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.