Speaking about Torture
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Cinematic Torture and the Availability of the Body Cinematic Torture and the Availability of the Body
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Torture and Ideological Catharsis Torture and Ideological Catharsis
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The Advent of the Hard Male Body in US Politics The Advent of the Hard Male Body in US Politics
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Torture as Mimesis and the Assertion of Gendered Sovereignty Torture as Mimesis and the Assertion of Gendered Sovereignty
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Masquerading Impotency Masquerading Impotency
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Sexual Penetration as Initiation into the New World Order Sexual Penetration as Initiation into the New World Order
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Arab Cinema and the Hetero-Normative Rules of Torture Arab Cinema and the Hetero-Normative Rules of Torture
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Torturous Cinema Torturous Cinema
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11 Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East
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Published:12 September 2012
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Abstract
This chapter relates mass-mediated abuses against Arabs and Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo to relevant U.S.-American films since the 1980s and to Middle Eastern films in order to show how such cultural representations are tied to the international power structure and what ideological premises underpin them. It argues that while depictions of physical abuse in U.S. and Middle Eastern films are interdependent and cross-referential, the two sets of film differ substantially in their choice of genres and modes of representation. Moreover, while characterizations of ethnic difference vary according to the particular political and racialized agenda being espoused, those relating to sexual difference follow a more uniform set of codifications. Emphasis on physical traits, such as weakness, passivity, and penetrability, are crucial to delivering a gendered political message that links recourse to torture to a drive for absolute power and gender domination.
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