Watching Rape : Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture.

Watching Rape : Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture.

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, Proja...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Projansky, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Rape in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Women on television.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
Rape in motion pictures
Women in motion pictures
Women on television
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Feminist History of Rape in U.S. Film, 1903-1979; 2 The Postfeminist Context: Popular Redefinitions of Feminism, 1980-Present; 3 Film and Television Narratives at the Intersection of Rape and Postfeminism; 4 Feminism and the Popular: Readings of Rape and Postfeminism in Thelma and Louise; 5 Persistently Displaced: Black Women in RapeNarratives; 6 Talking Back to Postfeminism? Rape Prevention and Education Films and Videos; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index of Film and Television Titles; General Index; About the Author.

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