Visualising Shattered Lives: Potentiality in Representations of Rape Victimisation in Contemporary Japan
This article examines how cinematic representations of rape can challenge the silence which surrounds the issue of rape and sexual violence in Japan. A textual analysis of two contemporary fictional Japanese films, DV: Domestic Violence [2005] and The Ravine of Goodbye [2013], was performed to illus...
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| Language: | English |
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The Japan Foundation, Sydney
2016-07-01
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| Series: | New Voices in Japanese Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://newvoices.org.au/volume-8/visualising-shattered-lives-potentiality-in-representations-of-rape-victimisation-in-contemporary-japanese-cinema/ |