Domestic Violence In Hollywood Film

Author : Diane L. Shoos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319650647

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Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film by Diane L. Shoos Pdf

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of postfeminism, domestic abuse post-awareness, and familiar genre conventions, these films engage in ideological “gaslighting” that reaffirms our preconceived ideas about men as abusers, women as victims, and the racial and class politics of domestic violence. While the films purport to condemn abuse and empower abused women, this study proposes that they tacitly reinforce the very attitudes that we believe we no longer tolerate. Shoos argues that films like these limit not only popular understanding but also social and institutional interventions.

Author : Shulamit Ramon,Michele Lloyd,Bridget Penhale
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838677817

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Gendered Domestic Violence and Abuse in Popular Culture by Shulamit Ramon,Michele Lloyd,Bridget Penhale Pdf

As binge-watching and streaming lead to increasing amounts of content and screen time, understanding how domestic violence and abuse is portrayed in popular culture and its impact on DVA in our society is more important than ever. This collection demonstrates how networked communication is influencing activism, both online and in the real-world.

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761926968

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Violence and Nonviolence by Gregg Barak Pdf

Episodes 12-14 from the first series of the Japanese anime about the efforts of four high school girls trying to save their school music club. Arriving for her first year in high school, Yui Hirasawa is eager to find a club to join. Meanwhile, drummer Ritsu Tainaka, her bassist friend Mio Akiyama, and keyboard player Tsumugi Kotobuki are trying to save the school's music club, which is set to close due to low numbers. After Yui joins the band playing castanets, the other members soon begin to realise they've accidentally discovered a guitar hero. Episodes comprise: 'Crisis', 'Light Music', 'Winter Days' and 'Live House'.

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798216172611

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes] by Laura L. Finley Pdf

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

Author : Chris Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216162148

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Violence in American Society [2 volumes] by Chris Richardson Pdf

While many books explore such specific issues as gun violence, arson, murder, and crime prevention, this encyclopedia serves as a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms. This encyclopedia explores violence in the United States, from the nation's founding to modern-day trends, laws, viewpoints, and media depictions. Providing a nuanced lens through which to think about violence in America, including its underlying causes, its iterations, and possible solutions, this work offers broad and authoritative coverage that will be immensely helpful to users ranging from high school and undergraduate students to professionals in law enforcement and school administration. In addition to detailed and evenhanded summaries of the key events and issues relating to violence in America, contributors highlight important events, political debates, legal perspectives, modern dimensions, and critical approaches. This encyclopedia also features excerpts from such important primary source documents as legal rulings, presidential speeches, and congressional testimony from scholars and activists on aspects of violence in America. Together, these documents provide important insights into past and present patterns of violent crime in the United States, as well as proposed solutions to those problems.

Author : Martha McCaughey,Neal King
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292778375

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Reel Knockouts by Martha McCaughey,Neal King Pdf

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threatened by the up-ending of women's traditional roles to feminists who saw the pair's use of male-style violence as yet another instance of women's co-option by the patriarchy. In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks. Contributors from a variety of disciplines analyze violent women's respective places in the history of cinema, in the lives of viewers, and in the feminist response to male violence against women. The essays in part one, "Genre Films," turn to film cycles in which violent women have routinely appeared. The essays in part two, "New Bonds and New Communities," analyze movies singly or in pairs to determine how women's movie brutality fosters solidarity amongst the characters or their audiences. All of the contributions look at films not simply in terms of whether they properly represent women or feminist principles, but also as texts with social contexts and possible uses in the re-construction of masculinity and femininity.

Author : Patty Sotirin,Victoria L. Bergvall,Diane L. Shoos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030597931

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Feminist Vigilance by Patty Sotirin,Victoria L. Bergvall,Diane L. Shoos Pdf

This collection advances vigilance as a critical feminist concept and strategy for addressing contemporary challenges. The assembled chapters develop feminist vigilance by elaborating concrete examples that emphasize action, ethics, and hope. Chapter authors expand on current feminist discussions about such issues as Black women’s self-care and anticipatory vigilance; media portrayals of race, gender, and violence; religion and social justice; technofeminist activism; postcolonial feminist critique; research ethics; and collective civic action. The contributions engage with larger discussions of social precarity, public anxiety, post-feminist appeals, and future feminist trajectories. Particular benefits of the collection include relatable content based in contemporary experiences, insightful and pragmatic conceptions of vigilance from feminist perspectives, and critical engagement with issues of intersectionality, agency, embodiment, and care ethics. The collection aims to address the need for productive academic responses to contemporary challenges to gendered identities, feminism, and intersectional relations that avoid abstractions or overwhelmingly negative analyses. Instead, this collection invites readers to engage in feminist vigilance as a fresh perspective, commitment, and strategy.

Author : David Church
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474475907

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Post-Horror by David Church Pdf

Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

Author : Helena Vanhala
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786456901

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The Depiction of Terrorists in Blockbuster Hollywood Films, 1980-2001 by Helena Vanhala Pdf

This book examines how American foreign policy and the commercial film industry's economic interests influenced the portrayal of international terrorism in Hollywood blockbuster films from the time of the Iran hostage crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Part I provides a historical overview of modern international terrorism and how it relates to the United States, its news media, and its film industry. Part II covers depictions of terrorism during the Cold War under President Reagan, including films like Commando and Iron Eagle. Part III covers the Hollywood terrorist after the Cold War, including European terrorists in the Die Hard franchise, Passenger 57, Patriot Games, Blown Away, The Jackal and Ronin; fundamentalist Islamic terrorists in True Lies and Executive Decision; the return of the communist threat in Air Force One; and 9/11 foreshadowing in The Siege.

Author : Elisa Giomi,Sveva Magaraggia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350168763

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Male and Female Violence in Popular Media by Elisa Giomi,Sveva Magaraggia Pdf

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media brings into focus the apparently symmetrical phenomena of men's violence against women and women's violence against men, explaining the profound differences in their actual features as well as in their representations, which over the last few years have been proliferating in a vast array of global media contents. Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia consider popular media including crime TV series such as The Killing (Denmark, 2007- 2012), The Fall (UK, 2013-2016) and True Detective (USA, 2015), factual entertainment such as Who the (bleep) Did I Marry? (Investigation Discovery, 2010-2015), and Italian pop music in order to examine popular culture's depictions of men and women in their opposite, yet complementary, roles of perpetrators and victims. They reveal how TV shows, pop-songs, news and commercials that populate global audiences' daily life fuel false beliefs about love and sexuality that either legitimate or stigmatise violence depending on the perpetrators and victims' gender.

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : IAP
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798887304311

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Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture by Laura L. Finley Pdf

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice. Chapters address such topics as teaching about racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding, showing how different forms of popular culture can be utilized to enhance student learning. Contributors provide both theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.

Author : Eva-Sabine Zehelein,Andrea Carosso,Aida Rosende-Pérez
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450611

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Family in Crisis? by Eva-Sabine Zehelein,Andrea Carosso,Aida Rosende-Pérez Pdf

Is the family in crisis? Or do crises crystallize in families' lived realities? Families as constitutive units of all social architectures are central to our democracies. In this book, scholars from cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today's rainbow variety of families crosses borders and how cultural texts - films, TV-series, novels, short stories and magazines, from Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) and the US - (de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses around topics such as father(hood)s, mother(hood)s and parentage, reproductive decisions and adoption, marriage and divorce, poverty and welfare, and the rhetoric of the nuclear family.

Author : Henry Bacon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137476449

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The Fascination of Film Violence by Henry Bacon Pdf

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped biologically conditioned violence related traits in human behavior.

Author : Michael Ryan,Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253206049

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Camera Politica by Michael Ryan,Douglas Kellner Pdf

" a modern mythography, a study of contemporary Hollywood films based on the tools offered by feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxist cultural theory, and deconstruction." --Village Voice "Solidly thought-out observation of the films of the 70's and 80's that comment on the system." --Audience "... intelligent, open advocacy. Its responsible arrangement of carefully described cultural materials will challenge students and instructors alike." --Teaching Philosophy Camera Politica is a comprehensive study of Hollywood film during a period of tremendous change in American history, a period that witnessed the end of the American empire, crises in the economy, a failure of political leadership, loss at war, and the rise of the Right.

Author : Faith McNulty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Abused wives
ISBN : OCLC:1348896710

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The Burning Bed by Faith McNulty Pdf