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Mike Dillon
Mike Dillon is a Ph.D. candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His research interests include concepts of sovereign power and trends of transnational violence that emerge in neo-liberal polities. His dissertation explores representations of violence in the American ‘torture porn’ and Japanese yakuza genres that allegorize xenophobic anxieties and intersecting policies of militarism and neo-liberalism in their respective cultural contexts.