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Torture : we have ways of making you talk / Electric Sky (Firm).
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…General Paul Aussaresses: French Torturer (4:12) -- Torture Workshop (4:50) -- Seven Days of Torture (4:42) -- Interrogation (3:04) -- Viet Nam Era - Unknown Enemy (4:31) -- Trained to Torture (5:14) -- Torturer in Exile (3:19) -- Argentinean Torturer (5:08) -- Aftermath of Torture (2:41) -- Torturer and Executioner (5:26) -- Psychopathic Torturer: Man of God? …”
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Torture / Debra A. Miller, book editor.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…How common is the use of torture? Torture is a worldwide problem / Human Rights Watch ; Both civilized and less civilized countries use torture techniques / Lisa Hajjar ; Torture continues to be a problem in Asia / Basil Fernando ; Torture is still common in Brazil / Brazzil Magazine ; Police in India frequently use torture / Rama Lakshmi ; Al Qaeda terrorists carried on Saddam Hussein's gruesome torture techniques in Iraq / Entifadh Qanbar -- Is torture morally wrong? …”
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Torture : a collection / edited by Sanford Levinson.
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Torture : power, democracy, and the human body / edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali -- Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner -- We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. …”
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Screening torture : media representations of state terror and political domination / edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Screening Torture: an Introduction / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. …”
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Torture porn : popular horror after Saw / Steve Jones, Northumbria University, UK.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…'Bend to our objectives' -- 'Torture Porn' as Press Discourse -- 3. 'No-one approves of what you're doing' -- Fans and Filmmakers -- PART II: 'TORTURE' (MORALITY) -- Introduction -- 4. …”
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The Subject of Torture : Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction: confronting the Abu Ghraib photographs -- Torture, biopower, and the desiring subject -- The nonsensical smile of the torturer: documentary form and the logic of enjoyment -- Torture porn and the desiring subject -- 24 and the torture fantasy -- The biotective versus the detective of the real: truth in Zero dark thirty and Homeland -- Alias and the fictional alternative to torture.…”
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Torture hearings / Public Affairs Television (Firm)
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…U.S. Tortures Prisoners (3:49) -- U.S. Policy on Torture (3:49) -- Torture Hearings: Who Is to Blame? …”
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Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror / Mark Danner.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Torture and truth -- The logic of torture -- The secret road to Abu Ghraib -- Iraq : the new war -- Delusions in Baghdad.…”
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The torture papers : the road to Abu Ghraib / edited by Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel ; introduction by Anthony Lewis.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From Fear to Torture; The Legal Narrative; Timeline; Missing Documents; Biographical Sketches; Memoranda; Reports; Sworn Statements; Statements on 16 Jan 2004; The Mikolashek Report; The Schlesinger Report; The Fay-Jones Report; American Bar Association Report to the House of Delegates; Afterword; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Index.…”
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The ethics of torture / J. Jeremy Wisnewski and R.D. Emerick.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Coming to (definitional) terms with torture: four models -- The economic model of torture: ticking-bomb arguments and torture warrants -- The phenomenological model of torture: dignity and the destruction of agency -- The dramaturgical model of torture: interrogation's immorality play -- The communicative model of torture: understanding institutionally permissive torture -- Assessing the varieties of torture: concluding reflections on a recurrent problem.…”
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Understanding torture : law, violence, and political identity / John T. Parry.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Torture and international law -- The European law of torture -- Torture and state violence in U.S. law -- Torture, rights, and the modern state -- Torture in modern democracies -- U.S. torture at home and abroad -- Torture in the War on Terror.…”
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Screening torture : media representations of state terror and political domination / edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Screening Torture: an Introduction / Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. …”
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Torture and democracy / Darius Rejali.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Modern torture and its observers -- Torture and democracy -- Lights, heat, and sweat -- Whips and water -- Bathtubs -- Shock -- Magnetos -- Currents -- Singing the world electric -- Prods, tasers, and stun guns -- Stun city -- Sticks and bones -- Water, sleep, and spice -- Stress and duress -- Forced standing and other positions -- Fists and exercises -- Old and new restraints -- Noise -- Drugs and doctors -- Supply and demand for clean torture -- Does torture work? …”
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The History Of Torture.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Cover; The History of Torture Throughout the Ages; Copyright; PREFACE; It Can't Happen Now -- A Dangerous Viewpoint; The Ostrich Attitude; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS; PART ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TORTURE; CHAPTER I THE MEANING AND LIMITATIONS OF TORTURE; A Question of Terminology; The Reality of Psychological Torture; Illegitimate, Surreptitious and Camouflaged Torture; CHAPTER II THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF TORTURE; A Primary Means of Exacting Vengeance; An Expression of Power; The Physiology of Hate; The Toleration of Torture by Society.…”
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The phenomenon of torture : readings and commentary / edited and with an introduction by William F. Schulz ; foreword by Juan E. Mendez.
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