Watching Rape

Author : Sarah Projansky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814768129

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Watching Rape by Sarah Projansky Pdf

Looking at popular culture from 1980 to the present, feminism appears to be "over": that is, according to popular critics we are in an era of "postfeminism" in which feminism has supposedly already achieved equality for women. Not so, says Sarah Projansky. In Watching Rape, Projansky undermines this complacent view in her fascinating and thorough analysis of depictions of rape in U.S. film, television, and independent video. Through a cultural studies analysis of such films as Thelma and Louise, Daughters of the Dust, and She's Gotta Have It, and television shows like ER, Ally McBeal, Beverly Hills 90210, and various made-for-tv movies, Projansky challenges us to see popular culture as a part of our everyday lives and practices, and to view that culture critically. How have media defined rape and feminism differently over time? How do popular narratives about rape also communicate ideas about gender, race, class, nationality, and sexuality? And, what is the future of feminist politics, theory, and criticism with regard to issues of sexual violence, postfeminism, and popular media? The first study to address the relationship between rape and postfeminism, and one of the most detailed and thorough analyses of rape in 25 years, Watching Rape is a crucial contribution to contemporary feminism.

Author : Dominique Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441116147

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Rape in Art Cinema by Dominique Russell Pdf

Art cinema has always had an aura of the erotic, with the term being at times a euphemism for European films that were more explicit than their American counterparts. This focus on sexuality, whether buried or explicit, has meant a recurrence of the theme of rape, nearly as ubiquitous as in mainstream film. This anthology explores the representation of rape in art cinema. Its aim is to highlight the prevalence and multiple functions of rape in this prestigious mode of filmmaking as well as to question the meaning of its ubiquity and versatility. Rape in Art Cinema takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together recognized figures such as historian Joanna Burke, philosopher Ann J. Cahill, and film scholars Martin Barker, Tanya Horeck and Scott Mackenzie alongside emerging voices. It is international in scope, with contributors from Canada, the U.S. and Britain coming together to investigate the representation of rape in some of cinema's most cherished films.

Author : Sarah Projansky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814766903

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Watching Rape by Sarah Projansky Pdf

In "Watching Rape", Sarah Projansky undermines the complacent view - that equality for women has already been achieved - in her analysis of depictions of rape in US film, televsion, and independent video. This study addresses the relationship between rape and postfeminism.

Author : Tanya Horeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135143336

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Public Rape by Tanya Horeck Pdf

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Looking at rape in real life as well as in literature and films such as The Accused and Boys Don't Cry, Horek reveals how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle

Author : Patricia Yancey Martin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415927741

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Rape Work by Patricia Yancey Martin Pdf

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Author : Merril D. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781440844904

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Encyclopedia of Rape and Sexual Violence [2 volumes] by Merril D. Smith Pdf

This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of rape and other forms of sexual violence, containing the latest information about victims and perpetrators; events, laws, and trends related to sexual violence; and attitudes toward it. This encyclopedia will help readers to develop a deeper understanding of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the United States and around the world. Content illuminates all aspects of this serious issue, including the forms of trauma experienced by survivors/victims; different types of rape, from incest to acquaintance rape to prison rape; specific cases, events, and controversies; laws, policies, movements, and organizations pertaining to the issue; and legal, political, and cultural contributors to rape and other forms of sexual violence. Encyclopedia of Rape and Sexual Violence follows an A–Z format, but instead of comprising brief overview entries, it features twenty chapters, each of which is a long-form entry that covers key perspectives, laws, court cases, and statistics on survivors/victims and perpetrators. Leading scholars' and activists' perspectives on the subject add depth to the information provided; the set also includes a selection of essential primary documents.

Author : Kelly Wilz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498588690

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Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture by Kelly Wilz Pdf

Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinematic or televisual narratives and in turn work to create new realities that encourage cultural and social change. Kelly Wilz analyzes the ways in which we, as a culture, tend to understand sex through visual media and dominant cultural myths, while highlighting productive texts which might serve as a possible corrective to the ways in which sex is ritualized by rules that legitimize violence. Through the lens of productive criticism, Wilz examines how language and dominant ideologies around rape culture and rape myths reinforce systemic violence, and how visual texts might work to reimagine how we might disrupt those ideologies and create new ways to engage in conversations around intimacy and violence. By centering the voices within the #MeToo movement, who actively work to de-normalize sexual assault and abuse, these models provide a useful counter to the deluge of dehumanizing narratives about survivors and sexualized violence. Scholars of pop culture, women’s studies, media studies, and social justice will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Victoria M. Nagy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802620177

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Male Rape Victimisation on Screen by Victoria M. Nagy Pdf

Focusing on the under-researched area of male sexual assault, this book reveals how seemingly harmless humour can infiltrate how we think about violent and victimising behaviours.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062008423

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Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones Spotlight by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs Pdf

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476686493

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Rape-Revenge Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Pdf

Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a phenomenon that--revitalized since #MeToo exploded in late 2017--is a filmmaking tradition with a history that transcends a contemporary context. Featuring both famous and unknown movies, controversial and widely celebrated filmmakers, as well as rape-revenge cinema from around the world, this revised edition demonstrates that diverse and often contradictory treatments of sexual violence exist simultaneously.

Author : Katherine Byrne,Julie Anne Taddeo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781793625861

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Rape in Period Drama Television by Katherine Byrne,Julie Anne Taddeo Pdf

Rape in Period Drama Television considers the representation of rape and rape myths as well as the audience response to it in a range of the most influential television period dramas of recent years.

Author : Susan Deacy,José Malheiro Magalhães,Jean Zacharski Menzies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350099210

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Revisiting Rape in Antiquity by Susan Deacy,José Malheiro Magalhães,Jean Zacharski Menzies Pdf

How did the Greeks and Romans perceive rape? How seriously was it taken, and who were seen as its main victims? These are two central questions that Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds (1997), edited by Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce, aimed to approach in twelve chapters. Setting out to understand if the ancients had a concept of rape and how it was understood through different angles – including legal, social, cultural and historiographical – Rape in Antiquity made an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on sexual violence in the ancient world, impacting upon the development of new approaches in the decades that followed its publication. Revisiting Rape in Antiquity: Sexualised Violence in Greek and Roman Worlds maps out the influence of Rape in Antiquity while exploring how far cultural changes since the 1990s have reshaped the scholarly landscape. This collection, comprising chapters by established scholars and early career researchers from many countries, provides a new window into sexual – and sexualized – violence. Covering a long chronology, this book journeys from Homer to Byzantium, to modern receptions, to the analysis of wartime rape, ancient Greek tragedy, classical myth, how stories involving rape are retold for children, ancient law and rhetoric, classical art, Ovid, Late Antiquity, modern literature, comic books and cinema. This book is the culmination of a rich scholarly inheritance, setting out new perspectives that will hopefully inspire researchers for decades to come.

Author : Lisa M. Cuklanz,Heather McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628923001

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Documenting Gendered Violence by Lisa M. Cuklanz,Heather McIntosh Pdf

Documenting Gendered Violence explores the intersections of documentary and gendered violence. Several contributors investigate representations through grounded textual analyses of key films and videos, including Sex Crimes Unit (2011) and The Invisible War (2012),and other documentary texts including Youtube, photographs, and theater. Other chapters use analysis and interviews to explore how gender violence issues impact production and how these documentaries become part of collaborations and awareness movements.

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 : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199978069

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies by Lisa Zunshine Pdf

This title considers how the architecture that enables human cognitive processing interacts with cultural and historical contexts. Organised into five parts (Narrative, History, and Imagination; Emotions and Empathy; The New Unconscious; Empirical and Qualitative Studies of Literature; and Cognitive Theory and Literary Experience), the volume considers case studies from a wide range of historical periods and national literary traditions.