The Violation of Representation: Art, Argento and the Rape-Revenge Film

Considering the moral controversies surrounding films such as I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarch, 1976) and Baise-Moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh-Thi, 2000), the rape-revenge film is often typecast as gratuitous and regressive. But far from dismissing rape-revenge in her foundational book Me...

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Main Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2011-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/676