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Author:   Aaron Michael Kerner
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780813564029

ISBN 10:   0813564026
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   24 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 offers a rich and provocative account of the possible cultural and political merits of films representative of the genre. -Women's Studies

This remarkable contribution to the scholarship on today s most reviled film cycle expertly demonstrates the continued relevance of trenchant cultural criticism, from Saw to Bush and beyond. --Mattias Frey University of Kent (12/08/2014)

This remarkable contribution to the scholarship on today s most reviled film cycle expertly demonstrates the continued relevance of trenchant cultural criticism, from <i>Saw</i> to Bush and beyond. --Mattias Frey University of Kent (12/08/2014)

"""By focusing on the concept of sadism and drawing on holocaust atrocities, Kerner offers original insights into the relationship between torture porn and American culture in the post-9/11 period."" -- Steve Jones * author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw * ""Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 is an important work in film studies."" * Cinema Journal * ""This remarkable contribution to the scholarship on today’s most reviled film cycle expertly demonstrates the continued relevance of trenchant cultural criticism, from Saw to Bush and beyond."" -- Mattias Frey * University of Kent * ""Kerner views [torture porn] with a clear, cold eye, continually drawing readers back to his central point, which is that viewers are complicit in the creation and reception of torture porn films. This offers a bleak signpost to what one can expect in the shared stakes of cinematic representationalism."" * Choice * ""Aaron Michael Kerner's Torture Porn in the wake of 9/11 offers a rich and provocative account of the possible cultural and political merits of films representative of the genre."" * Women's Studies *"

By focusing on the concept of sadism and drawing on holocaust atrocities, Kerner offers original insights into the relationship between torture porn and American culture in the post-9/11 period. --Steve Jones author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw (09/08/2014)

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AARON MICHAEL KERNER is an associate professor in the cinema department at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films.  

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