rape in film - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature

Book by Kathleen Wall; McGill-Queens University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Callisto (Greek mythology)--in literature, Mythology, Greek, Rape in literature, Seduction in literature, Women in literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Ovid to Atwood Initiation and Rape in Literature KATHLEEN WALL McGill-Queens...the patriarchy it frequently results in a rape which is designed precisely as punishment...such a retreat is as likely to end in rape as in freedom from domination. The...
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Writing under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947

Book by Nancy L. Paxton; Rutgers University Press, 1999

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, India--History--British Occupation,1765-1947, India--Politics And Government--1765-1947

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Examining the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paxton shows how it reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.
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The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television

Book by Atara Stein; Southern Illinois University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Heroes In Literature, Heroes In Motion Pictures

Collections: Entire Library

...tolerance of rape by reaffirming...brought to the film by a male in patriarchy...statement, the film portrays...enjoying the rape, moaning and...shoot him in the bath...techniques the film employs from...enjoying the rape and murders...disavow.... In both events...
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The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western

Book by Jon Tuska; Greenwood Press, 1985

Subjects:

Western Films--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

...However, no such hypocrisy can be found in FIRECREEK Warners, 1968 directed...Western series, especially GUNSMOKE. The film opens to Henry Fonda and his gang riding...and Gary Lockwood, gang members, would rape a young woman named Leah, played by Brooke...
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New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and beyond

Book by Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; Routledge, 1992

Subjects:

Motion Pictures--Semiotics

Collections: Entire Library

NEW VOCABULARIES IN FILM SEMIOTICS SIGHTLINES Edited by Edward...Edward Branigan NEW VOCABULARIES IN FILM SEMIOTICS Structuralism, Post-structuralism...Ella Shohat/Robert Stam NEW VOCABULARIES IN FILM SEMIOTICS Structuralism, post-structuralism...

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Desperate Deeds, Desperate Men: Gender, Race, and Rape in Silent Feature Films, 1915-1927

Journal article by Joel Shrock; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 6, 1997

Subjects:

Race relations in motion pictures--History, Rape in mass media--History, Sex role in motion pictures--History, Silent films--Criticism, interpretation, etc., White men--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...1910s and 1920s the film industry was fascinated with rape in silent feature films...of elite white men in new ways. Film offered vicarious attempted rape scenes as a way of...society. The specter of rape in film warned of the dangers...
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Portraying Mass Wartime Rape in the Documentary: Befreier Und Befreite and Calling the Ghosts

Journal article by Laurel Cohen-Pfister; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 51, 2004

Subjects:

BeFreier und Befreite (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Calling the Ghosts (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary films--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary movies--Criticism and interpretation, Rape--Political aspects, Rape--Portrayals, Women--Crimes against

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...mass rapes in the Balkans...groundbreaking film BeFreier und...1945 mass rape of German...mass rapes in European wars...time Sanders film on the rape of almost...women raped in Berlin alone...volume to the film, also entitled...chapter to rape statistics...
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The Female Voice in 'To Kill a Mockingbird': Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel

Journal article by Dean Shackelford; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1996

Subjects:

Film adaptations--Analysis, Girls--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Lee, Harper--Criticism, interpretation, etc., To Kill a Mockingbird (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., To Kill a Mockingbird (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Tom Robinsons rape trial, whereas in the film, the running...large from the rape trial to the end of the film. The film...twice more. In the first instance...the courtroom in the film, the center...Finch and the rape trial -- not...
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Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture

Journal article by Anne Stancil; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 26, 2003

Subjects:

Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...v+311. Paperback US$18.50. In Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist...the absence of a discussion of rape narratives in film studies. While this history...regarding the pervasiveness of rape in film, it seems a bit too lengthy...
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Ellipsis, Ritual, and "Real Time": Rethinking the Rape Complex in Southern Novels

Journal article by Laura S. Patterson; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2000

Subjects:

American fiction--Themes, motives, Rape in literature--Analysis, Southern States--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in entirely different ways because of the cultural milieux of the reading audience in a given publication period. Access to television and film depictions of rape, as well as the positioning of rape as a defining issue in social movements, allows...

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Rape in the Service of the State; Power and Patriarchy in Iraq

Magazine article by Kanan Makiya; The Nation, Vol. 256, May 10, 1993

Subjects:

Iraq--Political aspects, Rape--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Iraqi refugees, there is simply no doubt that "official" rape was rampant in Iraq, maybe even out of control, lacking any sort of...act of undressing to try on a new suit of clothes. The film was used to blackmail her into working as an informer...
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Politics in Film - the Seventeenth Filmfest DC

Magazine article by Lloyd Eby; World and I, Vol. 18, August 2003

Subjects:

Film festivals, Motion pictures--Political aspects, Movies--Political aspects, Washington, D.C.--Fairs and festivals

Collections: Entire Library

...the young man to make love with her) and accuse him of rape. This film depicts Korean life and customs, as well as the cruel and...Filmfest DC always has a group of films devoted to music in a section called Global Rhythms. Notable from this years...
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Media Goes Wilding in Palm Beach; Naming and Blaming

Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 252, June 24, 1991

Subjects:

Crime, Mass media--Ethical aspects, Palm Beach, Florida, Rape in mass media--Ethical aspects, Rape--Cases, Rape--Ethical aspects, Rape--Media coverage, Smith, William Kennedy--Cases

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...placed with regard to privacy, even though rape is a one-person crime. Section But here...jogger--like virtually every other journalist in the country, the entire readership of The...remaining shreds of the joggers privacy--film clips were blipped, quotes censored. What...
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Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Joanna Bourke

Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present (Book)--Book reviews, Virgins: A History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...against their will. In recent times, a successful charge of rape dispatched boxer Mike Tyson to jail. But on closer examination...and fear. Anke Bernau is a medievalist with an interest in film. Although both books have the word history in the subtitle...
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Bumping Uglies

Magazine article by Harlan Kennedy; Film Comment, Vol. 37, May 2001

Subjects:

Berlin International Film Festival--2001 AD, Berlin, Germany--History, Cities and towns--Fairs and festivals, Film festivals--Germany, Motion picture actors and actresses--Public relations, Motion picture industry--Fairs and festivals, Motion pictures--Marketing, Movie actors--Public relations, Movie industry--Fairs and festivals, Movies--Marketing

Collections: Entire Library

...accented Frenchmen.) The film won the Golden Bear...male-female relations in Romance, where the...seduction and date rape, doubly deflowers...virtual rape, where "rape" -- in the extraordinary...Dons Plum is the film Leonardo DiCaprio...

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Given a British Passport, the Racketeer Who Is Wanted for Rape in India

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 29, 2007

Subjects:

Rape

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...after warrants were put out for his arrest connected to a rape in Delhi, according to officials there. He married an 18-year-old...was jailed for running one of Britains biggest Bollywood film piracy rackets, worth almost half a million pounds. But...
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BRUTE FORCE; EXCLUSIVE EXPOSED: COPS AT WORK Undercover WPC's Shock Film Shows Officers Ignore 999 Calls They Delay Probe into Rape & Leave Man Bleeding in Street Lazy Night Staff Play Cards & Use Squad Cars for Hide and Seek

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 23, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Undercover WPCs Shock Film Shows Officers Ignore...They Delay Probe into Rape Leave Man Bleeding in Street Lazy Night...completing the damning film. Her investigation...allegations of racism in 2003 BBC documentary...die than report a rape to this lot WHAT FEMALE...
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11 YEARS FOR COUPLE WHO FILMED KID RAPE; Sick Pair Jailed after Grooming Girl, 9, for Sex Ordeal

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 15, 2006

Subjects:

Child sexual abuse, Motion pictures, Movies, Rape, Rape in motion pictures

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...yesterday for filming the rape of a little girl. Billy...forced their victim to film them as they repeatedly had sex in front of her. At the High...Moray, was convicted of rape by assisting Duncan to...having sex with Duncan in front of her. The abuse...
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My Film Highlighted the Plight of Rape Victims. but Don't Blind-Drunk Women Today Bear Any Responsibility for What Happens to Them?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 13, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...when I made my film, A Complaint Of Rape, in a series about...per cent of all rape claims are false...could expect in court. The film made a huge impact...for officers in how to handle rape allegations...of before our film. But when Panorama...
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One in Four of Us Think Rape Victims Are Partly at Fault; Provocative? Jodi Fosters Film the Accused Probed the Rape-Blame Issue

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

One in Four of Us Think Rape Victims Are Partly at Fault; Provocative? Jodi Fosters Film the Accused Probed the Rape...heldresponsible for their rape in various situations. If a...lowest conviction rates for rape in Europea fact that was undoubtedly...

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Polanski, Roman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

POLANSKI, ROMAN 1933 , Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned...he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his mother...1974). After pleading guilty to statutory rape in 1977, he fled (1978) back to France...
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Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Peter Grimes (1945), The Rape of Lucretia (1946), The Beggars...Nights Dream (1960), and Death in Venice (1973), he displayed a...Orchestra (1946), written for a film, is based on a theme by Purcell. In 1976 Queen Elizabeth II named...
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Abu Ghraib

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cruel, sadistic, and inhuman acts, including rape, sodomy, and murder. An Aug., 2004, Pentagon...techniques that had been sanctioned for use in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, but a 2007...dir., Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (documentary film, 2007), E. Morris, dir., Standard Operating...

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