Public rape : representing violation in fiction and film /

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Author / Creator:	Horeck, Tanya.
Imprint:	London : Routledge, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Sussex studies in culture and communication Sussex studies in culture and communication.
Subject:	Rape. Rape in literature. Rape in motion pictures. Rape. Rape in literature. Rape in motion pictures. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302295

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ISBN:	9781135143336 1135143331 9780203604182 0203604180 041528855X 9780415288552 0415288568 9780415288569
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-183) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Horeck, Tanya. Public rape. London : Routledge, 2004 041528855X

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