{"product_id":"screening-the-tortured-body-the-cinema-as-scaffold-9781137399175","title":"Screening the Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark de Valk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired 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 hegemonic-sanctioned torture and suppression as a means to a political outcome. \u003ci\u003eScreening The Tortured Body: The Cinema as Scaffold\u003c\/i\u003eelicits philosophical and cultural accounts of the 'retrained' body to deliberate on a range of politicised films and filmmakers whose narratives and mise-en-scène techniques critique corporeal subjugation by authoritarian factions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45277766353047,"sku":"9781137399175","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781137399175.webp?v=1769289131","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/screening-the-tortured-body-the-cinema-as-scaffold-9781137399175","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}