Rape in Period Drama Television - Consent, Myth, and Fantasy

Rape in Period Drama Television considers the representation of rape and rape myths as well as the audience response to it in a range of the most influential television period dramas of recent years.

List of contents

Chapter One: Rape Fantasy and the "Lawless" Eighteenth Century: Poldark and Banished
Chapter Two: Rape Responses, Romance, and Rape-Revenge
Chapter Three: "Dismissed, ignored, and woefully underreported": Male Rape in Bridgerton and Outlander
Chapter Four: Rape as a Weapon of War: Das Boot and A Place to Call Home
Chapter Five: Procurement and Period Drama: Rape for Money in Harlots
Chapter Six: "If you can't rape your wife, who can you rape?": Marital Rape in The Forsyte Saga and Poldark
Chapter Seven: Rape and the Older Woman

About the author

By Katherine Byrne and Julie Anne Taddeo

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Byrne, Katherine Taddeo Byrne, Byrne Katherine, Julie Anne Taddeo
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781793625878
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-587-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Drama, Sexual abuse & harassment, Film, TV & radio, Sexual abuse and harassment, Television: styles and genres, Television Soap Operas, Film, television, radio genres: Drama