Revisionist Rape-Revenge [electronic resource] : Redefining a Film Genre /
Henry, Claire.author.
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.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reapproaching Rape-Revenge; Rape-Revenge as Genre; New Angles: Politics, Ethics, Affect, and Phenomenology; Politics; Ethics; Affect and Phenomenology; Definitional Criteria and Revisionist Features: Straightheads Case Study; Circling the Canon: Chapters Overview; 1 Remaking Rape-Revenge: The Last House on the Left (1972/2009) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978/2010); The Last House on the Left; Rape Scenes and Censorship; Castrate vs. InSinkErate; The Endings: The Road Leads to Nowhere; I Spit on Your Grave
Crystallization and Change2 The Postfeminist Trap of Vagina Dentata for the American Teen Castratrice; Teeth; Hard Candy; Losing Their Bite; 3 Rape, Racism, and Descent into the Ethical Quagmire of Revenge; Understanding Oppression; Rape Scene Aspect #1: Rape as Racial Terrorism; Rape Scene Aspect #2: Date Rape; Spring: Objectification and Descent; Fall: The Eroticization and Futility of Revenge; Harmful Myths; The Final Look: Shame and Ethical Spectatorship; 4 The Shame of Male Acolytes: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality Through Rape-Revenge; Acolytes; The Book of Revelation; Snowtown
Shame's Reassessment5 Collective Revenge: Challenging the Individualist Victim-Avenger in Death Proof, Sleepers, and Mystic River; Death Proof and Kill Bill; Sleepers and Mystic River; Throwing Like a Girl, Walking Like a Man; ConclusionChallenging the Boundaries of Cinema's Rape-Revenge Genre in Katalin Varga and Twilight Portrait; Katalin Varga; Twilight Portrait; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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.
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