Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination
by
Michael Flynn, Fabiola Fernandez Salek,
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist...