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Sugar Water: “24” and the Enhanced Techniques of Viewer Torture

Robert Cass May 28, 2009 9

In February 2007 The New Yorker published “Whatever It Takes,” an article by Jane Mayer about the Fox series 24, and how the politically conservative views of the show’s creators, Joel Surnow and Robert

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Political Culture: The Bush Administration’s Funny Games

Jon Cummings January 10, 2008 1

Py Korry’s excellent piece the other day about the John Woo torture memo got me thinking about, of all things, a movie trailer that I saw repeatedly over the holidays while haunting the local

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