Peter Hutchings
Biographic Data
| ID | 6564705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hutchings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutchings |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHINGS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entertaining Torture, Embodying Law
Torture appears as an image: once, of sovereign power, more recently, of acts performed on people not even defined as prisoners. It served to instruct, now it serves to entertain, as image and spectacle. Law's entertaining of torture both enables the spectacles seen (and not seen) since Abu Ghraib, and intersects with wider cultural practices, especially in cinema and television. Torture has been a form of entertainment as much as it has been a s…
‘I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill’
This article considers a cycle of British 'women in peril' thrillers from the first half of the 1970s, focusing in particular on the films And Soon the Darkness (1970), Assault (1971) and Blind Terror (1971), and the television series Thriller (1973-1976). In their presentation of predatory males stalking female victims, these texts ostensibly offer a take on gender politics that is both disturbing and reactionary, and one might relate them in th…
Mural Sovereignty
From Offworld Colonies to Migration Zones
Looking again at Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982) — after Tampa, after 9/11 — 2019 seems all too close to 2003 2 . Australia's Christmas Island, America's Guantànamo Bay are our offworld colonies, and the disposable “skinjobs” come in a variety of darker colours than those of Scott's film. Through a re-reading of Blade Runner, this paper argues that the theory of right which would be adequate to such a world is the right of the outlaw, for …
Spectacularizing Crime
ModernForensics
(1997). Modern Forensics: Photography and Other Suspects. Law & Literature: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 229-243
ModernForensics
(1997). Modern Forensics: Photography and Other Suspects. Law & Literature: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 229-243
Spectacularizing Crime
From Offworld Colonies to Migration Zones
Looking again at Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982) — after Tampa, after 9/11 — 2019 seems all too close to 2003 2 . Australia's Christmas Island, America's Guantànamo Bay are our offworld colonies, and the disposable “skinjobs” come in a variety of darker colours than those of Scott's film. Through a re-reading of Blade Runner, this paper argues that the theory of right which would be adequate to such a world is the right of the outlaw, for …
‘I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill’
This article considers a cycle of British 'women in peril' thrillers from the first half of the 1970s, focusing in particular on the films And Soon the Darkness (1970), Assault (1971) and Blind Terror (1971), and the television series Thriller (1973-1976). In their presentation of predatory males stalking female victims, these texts ostensibly offer a take on gender politics that is both disturbing and reactionary, and one might relate them in th…
Mural Sovereignty
Entertaining Torture, Embodying Law
Torture appears as an image: once, of sovereign power, more recently, of acts performed on people not even defined as prisoners. It served to instruct, now it serves to entertain, as image and spectacle. Law's entertaining of torture both enables the spectacles seen (and not seen) since Abu Ghraib, and intersects with wider cultural practices, especially in cinema and television. Torture has been a form of entertainment as much as it has been a s…
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