Watching rape : film and television in postfeminist culture / Sarah Projansky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Projansky, Sarah, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape in motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Women on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 , Projansky undermines this complacent view in her fascinating and thorough analysis of depictions of rape in U.S. film, television, and independent video. Through a cultural studies analysis of such films as Thelma and Louise , Daughters of the Dust , and She's Gotta Have It , and television shows like ER , Ally McBeal

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 Rape

Narratives

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 .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814768716

0814768717

OCLC:

779828264