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Public rape : representing violation in fiction and film /
The author considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of "public rape", she looks at how images of rape - from news stories to Hollywood films and popular fiction - serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class differ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Colección: | Sussex studies in culture and communication.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The author considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of "public rape", she looks at how images of rape - from news stories to Hollywood films and popular fiction - serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. The author argues that the concept of fantasy, while much maligned in traditional feminist writing on sexual violence, is the key to understanding the investment in narratives of rape. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach that works between the fields of gender, film, and cultural studies to reveal how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135143336 1135143331 9780203604182 0203604180 1299287980 9781299287983 |