Rape in art cinema /
Art cinema has always had an aura of the erotic, with the term being at times a euphemism for European films that were more explicit than their American counterparts. This focus on sexuality, whether buried or explicit, has meant a recurrence of the theme of rape, nearly as ubiquitous as in mainstre...
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New York :
Continuum,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: why rape? / Dominique Russell
- Canonical works and auteurs. Screen/memory: rape and its alibis in Last year at Marienbad / Lynn A. Higgins
- The fault lines of vision: Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema
- Buñuel: storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell
- Materiality and metaphor: rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald
- Sins of permission: the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson
- Rough awakenings: unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa
- English-language independent cinemas. Jane Campion's women's films: art cinema and the postfeminist rape narrative / Shelley Cobb
- Boys don't get raped / Ann J. Cahill
- "If it was a rape, then why would she be a whore?" Rape in Todd Solondz' films / Michelle E. Moore
- Cinéma brut and the new French extremists. "Typically French"? Mediating screened rape to British audiences / Martin Barker
- On watching and turning away: Ono's Rape, cinéma direct aesthetics and the genealogy of cinéma brut / Scott MacKenzie
- Uncanny horrors: male rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard
- Sexual trauma and jouissance in Baise-moi / Joanna Bourke
- Shame and the sisters: Catherine Breillat's À ma soeur! (Fat Girl) / Tanya Horeck.
