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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
‘Bend to Our Objectives’: ‘Torture Porn’ as Press Discourse
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Critics’ judgments directly shape the meanings of ‘torture porn’. As Newman (1996: 134) notes, it is ‘usually film critics’ who label films, and this is certainly true of ‘torture porn’, a term that was coined and propagated by journalists. The press’s responses to torture porn are culturally powerful, gaining gravitas from the mode of dissemination. Not only are such evaluations inter/nationally distributed, but the news context also situates such commentary in a context that intimates factuality. That context lends an impression of authority to print press reviews that other forms of criticism — such as internet-distributed opinion pieces and fan responses — do not necessarily share. Ergo, it is vital to grasp how torture porn has been represented in the press in order to explicate what ‘torture porn’ means.