num_pages: 238
description: Often considered the lowest depth to which the cinema can plummet the rape-revenge film has been dismissed as exploitative and sensational catering to a demented demographic. Only on such rare occasions as Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring John Boorman's Deliverance and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill has the rape-revenge movie transcended what is commonly assumed to be its intrinsically regressive nature.
language: English
title: Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
publisher: McFarland & Company