Watching Rape

Author : Sarah Projansky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814768129

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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 : Sarah Projansky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814766897

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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 : 42,6 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 : Tanya Horeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : 42,7 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 : 42,9 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 : 41,9 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 : Claire Henry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137413956

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Revisionist Rape-Revenge by Claire Henry Pdf

Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and its responses.

Author : Victoria M. Nagy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : 47,7 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 : Tanya C Horeck
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748647095

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New Extremism in Cinema by Tanya C Horeck Pdf

Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral responses. This first collection of essays devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship. Through critical discussions of key films and directors, this book sheds new light on cutting-edge debates in Film Studies regarding sexuality, violence and spectatorship, affect and ethics, and the political dimensions of extreme cinema.Including important new work from internationally renowned scholars Martin Barker and Martine Beugnet, as well as combining a range of approaches to extreme cinema across audience research and

Author : Parveen Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135081119

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The Emptiness of the Image by Parveen Adams Pdf

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have sometimes avoided the representation of women altogether, but they are now producing images which challenge the regime. How do these images succeed in their challenge ? The Emptiness of the Image offers a psychoanalytic answer. Parveen Adams argues that, despite flaws in some of the details of its arguments, psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. She goes on to show how the issue of desire changes the way we can think of images and their effects. Throughout she discusses the work of theorists, artists and filmmakers such as Helene Deutsch, Catherine MacKinnon, Mary Kelly, Francis Bacon, Michael Powell and Della Grace. The Emptiness of the Image shows how the very space of representation can change to provide a new way of thinking the relation between the text and the spectator. It shows how psychoanalytic theory is supple enough to slide into and transform the most unexpected situations.

Author : Elva Thordis,Stranger Tom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781510730021

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South of Forgiveness by Elva Thordis,Stranger Tom Pdf

One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone. After exchanging hundreds of searingly honest emails over eight years, Thordis and Tom decided it was time to speak face to face. Coming from opposite sides of the globe, they meet in the middle, in Cape Town, South Africa, a country that is no stranger to violence and the healing power of forgiveness. South of Forgiveness is an unprecedented collaboration between a survivor and a perpetrator, each equally committed to exploring the darkest moment of their lives. It is a true story about being bent but not broken, facing fear with courage, and finding hope even in the most wounded of places. Personable, accessible, and compelling, South of Forgiveness is an intense and refreshing look at a gendered violence, rape culture, personal responsibility, and the effect that patriarchal cultures have on both men and women.

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : 47,6 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.