Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dim

Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.

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 ac

Over the past few years, ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specif

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political tortureExamines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of tortur