Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation (War Culture)

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Review "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"Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 is an important work in film studies."--Cinema Journal"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 ""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 " About the Author Aaron Michael Kerner is an associate professor in the cinema department at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films.