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9780425067444 | Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | also contains The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film
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9780595136797 | Backinprint.Com, November 1, 2000, cover price $27.95
9780425065921 | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | also contains The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film | About this edition: The destiny of the Brand family becomes intertwined with America's rise to power, in a saga of an epic era in the creation of the American dream--from 1836 to 1848
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9780231153584 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 21, 2012, cover price $90.00
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9780231153591 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 21, 2012, cover price $30.00
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9780230319417 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 9, 2013, cover price $95.00
Saw, Hostel, The Devilâs Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label âtorture porn.â Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. In this timely new study, Aaron Kerner challenges that interpretation, arguing that âtorture pornâ must be understood in a much broader context, as part of a phenomenon that spans multiple media genres and is rooted in a long tradition of American violence.  Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 tackles a series of tough philosophical, historical, and aesthetic questions: What does it mean to call a film âsadistic,â and how has this term been used to shut down critical debate? In what sense does torture porn respond to current events, and in what ways does it draw from much older tropes? How has torture porn been influenced by earlier horror film cycles, from slasher movies to J-horror? And in what ways has the torture porn aesthetic gone mainstream, popping up in everything from the television thriller Dexter to the reality show Hellâs Kitchen?  Reflecting a deep knowledge and appreciation for the genre, Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 is sure to resonate with horror fans. Yet Kernerâs arguments should also strike a chord in anyone with an interest in the history of American violence and its current and future ramifications for the War on Terror.   Â
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9780813564036 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 24, 2015, cover price $90.00
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9780813564029 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 24, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Saw, Hostel, The Devilâs Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label âtorture porn.
Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases film and television studies' singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it.
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9780231170703 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 5, 2015, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject.
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9780231170710 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 5, 2015, cover price $28.00
9780425065921, titled "A Distant Dream" | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | also contains A Distant Dream | About this edition: The destiny of the Brand family becomes intertwined with America's rise to power, in a saga of an epic era in the creation of the American dream--from 1836 to 1848
9780425067444, titled "Slocum and the Lost Dutchman Mine" | Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 1984, cover price $2.50 | also contains Slocum and the Lost Dutchman Mine
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