Reconstructing Violence : The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature /

"In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the South, Deborah E. Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the "southern rape complex" in American film. Taking as her starting point D. W. Griffith's infamous The Birth of a Nation, Barker demonstrates how the tropes an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker, Deborah, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence in motion pictures.
Violence in literature.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Race relations in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in motion pictures.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la litterature.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) au cinema.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Relations raciales au cinema.
Violence dans la litterature.
Violence au cinema.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Confederate abjection in D.W. Griffith's early Civil War films and Thomas Dixon's Clansman (1905)
  • Taking the South out of the southern rape complex in The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
  • Believing in Mammy: Sanctuary (1961), the movie
  • The power of the false in Touch of Evil (1958)
  • "A man like that doesn't deserve civil rights": systemic violence in Cape Fear (1962)
  • "Blind spots": the visual logic and historical context of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Coda: A Time to Kill (1996) and post-civil rights variations on the southern rape complex.

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