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<b>Collected Essays Cinema and the State-Tortured Body</b>
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<td>Call for Abstracts<br>
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Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the
body’ and 'the spectacle of the scaffold', the collection looks to
explore the Sovereign’s power and control over the body through the
cinema's arguable co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate
aims and goals. <br>
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Possible topics include, but not limited to: politicised cinema; body
as socially constructed by corporate/military factions; political
ramifications of torture; body under stress from state-sanctioned
torture; hegemony, grotesque image of the body,
state/corporate/military notions of identity and space, political
technology of state punishment; Grosz's notion of 're-inscribing the
body' as a means to challenge the Sovereign's control and construction
of gender.<br>
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Film examples: L'aveu, Interrogation, The Road to Guantanamo, Le Petit
Soldat, The Battle for Haditha, Hunger, Rendition, Punishment Park,
JFK, The Manchurian Candidate, Executive Action, Winter Kills, Standing
Operating Procedure, Taxi to the Dark Side, Z, I Saw Ben Barka Get
Killed, The Official Story, State of Siege, The Hurt Locker, Salo,
Death and the Maiden.<br>
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Will also consider any topics related to the subject matter.
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Mark de Valk
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Southampton Solent University
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East Park Terrace, Southampton, UK
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SO14 0YN<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:mark.de.valk@solent.ac.uk">mark.de.valk@solent.ac.uk</a></td>
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