Abu Ghraib Effect

Name: Abu Ghraib Effect
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ISBN: 9781861893093

ISBN-10: 1861893094

ISBN-13: 9781861893093

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen F. Eisenman

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The line between punishment and torture can be razor-thin-- yet the entire world agreed that it was definitively crossed at Abu Ghraib. Or perhaps not. George W. Bush won a second term in office only months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was uncovered, and only the lowest-ranking U.S. soldiers involved in the scandal have been prosecuted. Where was the public outcry? Stephen Eisenman offers here an unsettling explanation that exposes our darkest inclinations in the face of all-too-human brutality. Eisenman characterizes Americans' willful dismissal of the images as " the Abu Ghraib effect, " rooted in the ways that the images of tortured Abu Ghraib prisoners tapped into a reactionary…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 4/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



Resemblance



Freudian Slip



Documents of Barbarism



Pathos Formula



Stages of Cruelty



Muscle and Bone



Theatre of Cruelty



Orientalism


Afterword: What is Western Art?


References


Acknowledgements


Photographic Acknowledgements