Screening #metoo - Rape Culture in Hollywood

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleScreening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Production Code in Hollywood, which resulted in more frequent and increasingly graphic images of sex and violence being included in mainstream movies. Focusing on narratives in which surveillance and sexual violence feature prominently, contributors from North America and Europe examine a variety of film genres, including spy films, teen comedies, kitchen sink dramas, coming-of-age stories, rape/revenge films, and horror films. Reflecting the increasing social and academic awareness of sexual violence in Hollywood film and its transmission and cultivation of rape culture in the United States and abroad, they are concerned not only with the content of the films under scrutiny but also with the clear relationship between the stories, how they are being told, and the culture that produced them. Screening #MeToo challenges readers to look at mainstream Hollywood films differently, in light of attitudes about art and power, sexuality and consent, and the pleasures and frustrations of criticizing "entertainment" films from these perspectives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ralph Beliveau, Lisa Funnell, Lisa (EDT)/ Beliveau Funnell
• Con la collaborazione di: Ralph Beliveau (Editore), Beliveau Ralph (Editore), Lisa Funnell (Editore), Funnell Lisa (Editore)
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781438487595
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8759-5
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Print on demand
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism