INDEX
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Abbott, Stacey, 181–82n9
Abrams, J. J., 181n6
Abu Ghraib photographs, 1–6, 10–13, 15; and documentary films 49–50, 52–54, 57–70; and torture porn, 72, 92–93
Agamben, Giorgio, 2–3, 33, 43, 47, 107, 161n4; and bare life 34–36, 84, 167n17; and cinema 36
Alias, 19–20, 72, 100, 114, 129–30, 137, 139–59, 165n40, 180n1, 181n6
Althusser, Louis, 37–38, 163n23
Amnesty International, see Schulz, William F.
Anderson, John, 179n7
Apel, Dora, 70, 172n33
Arab Mind, The, see Patai, Raphael
Arendt, Hannah, 34, 167n19
Austin, Thomas, 170n24
Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 183n20
Barnes, Elizabeth, 183n21
Battle of Algiers, The, 17
Battlestar Galactica, 100
Benjamin, Walter, 34, 167n19
Benson-Allott, Caetlin, 170n21
Bigelow, Kathryn, see Zero Dark Thirty
Biodetective, 116–28, 159
Biometrics, 38–39
Biopolitical body, 24–25, 27, 81, 85
Biopower, 10, 12, 18, 20, 27–33, 36, 85, 166nn5, 6; and death, 87–88; and ideology, 37–42, 95–96, 159; and the sovereign, 34–35; and time, 100–3, 107
Blue Steel, 123
Bourne films, the, 115, 126–28, 178n2
Braudy, Leo, 179n5
Brown, Simon, 181–82n9
Bush, George, 2–4, 8–9, 13, 57, 59
Centurions, Les, see Lartéguy, Jean
Chertoff, Michael, 110
Christie, Agatha, 116
Classical detective, 116, 158
Cloning, 39–40
Clover, Carol, 80, 173–74n15
Clueless, 150
Coon, David, 183n23
Copjec, Joan, 69, 141, 154
Corsetti, Damien, 68
Cowie, Elizabeth, 142
CSI, 117, 158
Danes, Claire, 131
de Sade, Marquis, 5, 162n11
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari, 28, 166n7, 166n8, 166n14
Denby, David, 179n12
Denny, David, 124–25
Descartes, 11, 26, 163n24
Detective of the real, 116–17, 128–37, 158–59
Devil’s Rejects, The, 72
Doomsday clock, 176n8
Dupin, Auguste, 116, 158
Edelstein, David, 71–72
Enjoyment: 45, 51–52, 167n30; and documentary film, 57–58, 60, 62, 65–70; and torture, 3, 72, 77
Esposito, Roberto, 88–89, 167n16
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 176n10
Extreme Makeover, 150
Fahrenheit 9/11, see Moore, Michael
Fallon, Kris, 170n22
Feinstein, Howard, 170n25
Felicity, 183n24
Femme Nikita, La, 150
Finding, Deborah, 181–82n2
Finnegan, Patrick, 114
Foucault, Michel, 6, 11, 29–37, 43, 85, 88–89, 162n14, 166n8, 166n13, 166n14
Freud, Sigmund, 42–44, 69, 81, 167n26, 171n30
Fringe, 181n6
Garin, Manuel, 181n6, 183n24
Geneva Conventions, 2, 7–9, 59, 163n18
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The, 12, 49, 58–59, 63–67
Gibney, Alex, see Taxi to the Dark Side
Gilroy, Tony, 127
Gleaners and I, see Varda, Agnes
Greengrass, Paul, 127
Guantanamo Bay, 4, 8, 34, 58, 84, 87, 109, 111
Hardboiled detective, 116, 158
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri, 33
Harmon, Sabrina, 65–67
Heidegger, Martin, 101–3
Hollyfield, Jerod, 172n1
Homeland, 115, 129–37, 158, 173n12, 180n20
Hostel, 14–15, 72, 76–86, 174n19
How Do I Look? 150
Howell, Peter, 180n16
Hurt Locker, 124
Imaginary, 129, 143–44, 182n11
Inception, 176n10
Jones, Steve, 175n25
Jouissance, see Enjoyment
Kahana, Jonathan, 169–70n19
Kant, Immanuel, 68, 171n28
Kennedy, Rory, see Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The
King, Rodney, 66
Lacan, Jacques, 42, 44–45, 75, 129, 142–45, 157, 164n26, 167nn26, 30, 168n1; and the gaze 51, 168n4
Lartéguy, Jean, 15–17, 164n31, 165n36
Lattman, Peter, 111
Lesage, Julia, 15, 61, 164n30, 171n26, 171n27
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 53
Liman, Doug, 127
Lindsey, Hal, 176n8
Lockwood, Dean, 174n23, 175n29
Lowenstein, Adam, 172–73n6
Lynching photographs, 69–70
MacLachlan, Alice, 181–82n2
Marshall, Gary, 149
Masquerade, 148–49, 154, 182n16
Matz, Jesse, 176n13
Mayer, Andre, 172n3
Mayer, Jane, 114, 122, 165n36
McElwee, Ross, 57
McCann, Ben, 174n22
Middleton, Jason, 80
Milgram, Stanley, 64–65
Miller, Jacques-Alain, 157
Miller, Martin, 111
Miss Congeniality, 150
Mitchell, W. J. T., 39–40, 167n25
Moore, Michael, 57
Morris, Errol, see Standard Operating Procedure
Mulvey, Laura, 51, 168n4
My Fair Lady, 150
Nakamura, Lisa, 177n17
Narrative disavowal, 108, 114
Nazi Germany, 34, 84, 88–89
Nevins, David, 97
Non-Stop, 178n1
Obama, Barak, 4, 8, 115, 162n9
Passion of the Christ, The, 72
Patai, Raphael, 56
Patriot Act, 34
Penido, Isabel, 177n16
Portwood-Stace, Laura, 183n20
“Purloined Letter, The,” 158
Pretty Woman, 149, 182–83n19
Prince, Stephen, 18, 110
Psychoanalytic subject, 24, 27, 36, 42–43
Quantum of Solace, 72
Rabinowitz, Paula, 169n16, 171n29
Racism; and biopower, 88–89; and depiction of Arab or Arab American characters, 109, 134–35; and torture, 55–57, 70
Radner, Hilary, 149–50
Rascaroli, Laura, 123, 126
Rat Man, 46
Real, 129–30, 143–44, 154, 158
Reality television shows, 150–51, 183n20
Rejali, Darius, 16–17, 164n33, 165n35
Riceour, Paul, 176n12
Rope, 175n2
Rose, Charlie, 131
Rose, Jacqueline, 149
Rosenberg, Howard, 96
Rumsfeld, Donald, 58
Sadism, 75–76
Sands, Philippe, 110–11
Saw, 72, 85–93, 174n22, 174n23, 175n25, 175n28
Schmidt, Carl, 34, 167n19
Schulz, William F., 13, 164n28, 164n29
Searchers, The, 112
September 11, 2001 attacks, 2–4, 9, 49, 71, 103, 119–20, 127
Shane, 112
Sharrett, Christopher, 174n24
Sherlock, 116
Sherman, Cindy, 154–55
Sherman’s March, see McElwee, Ross
Smith, Christian, 97
Sontag, Susan, 54, 70
Spurlock, Morgan, 57
Standard Operating Procedure, 12, 49, 58, 60–64, 66, 170n23, 170n24, 170n25
State of Emergency, see State of Exception
State of Exception, 3, 34–35, 83–84, 107
Stavrakakis, Yannis, 53
Strange Days, 123
Super Size Me, see Spurlock, Morgan
Surveillance, 117–20, 124, 128
Symbolic, 129, 143–44
Tasker, Yvonne, 178–79n4
Taxi to the Dark Side, 12, 49, 58, 62–65, 68, 76, 171n27
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 80
Thelma and Louise, 182–83n19
3 Days to Kill, 178n1
Ticking bomb scenario, 13, 15–18, 50, 98–99, 108, 113, 165n36
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, 150
Torture fantasy, 15, 27, 41–42, 46, 50, 55, 87, 90–92, 159, 171n29, 175n28; and the contemporary detective, 115–37; and the urgency of time, 95–114
Torture porn, 13–15, 71–93
Tracking shots, 79–80
Traitor, 72
Truth in fiction, 20
24 (television series), 15, 17–20, 49, 55, 72, 85, 95–114, 119, 139–41
2012, 176n9, 178n24
Tziallas, Evangelos, 74
United 93, 179n6
Varda, Agnès, 57
Veronica Mars, 130, 176n5, 182n12
Wester, Maisha, 173n7, 174n21
Western hero, 112
What Not to Wear, 150
Williams, Linda, 73, 169n18
Wisnewski, Jeremy, 5–6, 162n10, 168n33
Wetmore, Kevin, 173n13, 173–74n15
Whitaker, Brian, 56, 169n12
Wolf Creek, 72
Yoo, John, 9, 110
Y2K scare, 102
Zapruder film, 66
Zero Dark Thirty, 20, 115–27, 135, 158, 179n5, 179n6
Žižek, Slavoj, 38, 47, 52–53, 167n24, 168n6, 180n14