Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication (Paperback)) - Softcover

Horeck, Tanya

 
9780415288569: Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication (Paperback))

Synopsis

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Looking at rape in real life as well as in literature and films such as The Accused and Boys Don't Cry, Horek reveals how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle

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About the Author

Tanya Horeck is Lecturer in Communication Studies in the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Polytechnic University.

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ISBN 10:  041528855X ISBN 13:  9780415288552
Publisher: Routledge, 2003
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