Images of torture: Culture, politics and power

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-30

  Carrabine, Eamonn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abu Ghraib; aesthetics; art; ethics; representation; suffering; torture

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955816371     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659011404418     Document Type: Article

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