CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs

1.  Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject

2.  The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films

3.  Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw

4.  24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy

5.  The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland

6.  Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture

Notes

Index