{"product_id":"torture-porn-in-the-wake-of-911-horror-exploitation-and-the-cinema-of-sensation-war-culture-9780813564029","title":"Torture Porn in the Wake of 911 Horror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable contribution to the scholarship on today’s most reviled film cycle expertly demonstrates the continued relevance of trenchant cultural criticism, from \u003ci\u003eSaw\u003c\/i\u003e to Bush and beyond.\" -- Mattias Frey * University of Kent *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTorture Porn in the Wake of 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work in film studies.\" * Cinema Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Aaron Michael Kerner's \u003ci\u003eTorture Porn in the wake of 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich and provocative account of the possible cultural and political merits of films representative of the genre.\" * Women's Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContentsPreface1   Torture Porn: From 9\/11 to the Multiplex2   The Torture Porn Genre3   Some Antecedents: Sadism, Exploitation, and (Neo-)Slashers4   The Saw Franchise: Videogames, and the Sadistic Pro(an)tagonist Jigsaw5   The Hostel Films: Consuming Bodies6   “I think we took a wrong turn . . .”7   Soft-core, and Beyond Torture PornFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405785112919,"sku":"9780813564029","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813564029.jpg?v=1730493608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/torture-porn-in-the-wake-of-911-horror-exploitation-and-the-cinema-of-sensation-war-culture-9780813564029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}