Screening #MeToo
Rape Culture in Hollywood
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2022
273 pages
978-1-4384-8761-8 (ISBN)
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Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.
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Lisa Funnell is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the coauthor (with Klaus Dodds) of Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond. Ralph Beliveau is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is the coauthor (with Erika Engstrom) of Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens
Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau
Part I: Sexual Politics and Violence in Established Genres
1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971)
Lisa Funnell
2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
Sabrina Moro
3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night Fever
Katherine Karlin
4. Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
Brian Brems
5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
Emily Naser-Hall
Part II: Consequences and the Fixing Gaze: Surveillance and Rape/Revenge
6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the Nerds
Julia Chan
7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy
Brittany Caroline Speller
8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
Amanda Spallacci
9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nicole Burkholder-Mosco
Part III: Teen Comedies and Women's Horror Stories in the #MeToo Era
10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
Michele Meek
11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
Shana MacDonald
12. Seeing What Isn't There: The Invisible Man and #MeToo
Michelle Kay Hansen
13. Believable: Feminist Resistance of Rape Culture in Netflix's Unbelievable
Tracy Everbach
Contributors
Index
Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens
Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau
Part I: Sexual Politics and Violence in Established Genres
1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971)
Lisa Funnell
2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
Sabrina Moro
3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night Fever
Katherine Karlin
4. Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
Brian Brems
5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
Emily Naser-Hall
Part II: Consequences and the Fixing Gaze: Surveillance and Rape/Revenge
6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the Nerds
Julia Chan
7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy
Brittany Caroline Speller
8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
Amanda Spallacci
9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nicole Burkholder-Mosco
Part III: Teen Comedies and Women's Horror Stories in the #MeToo Era
10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
Michele Meek
11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
Shana MacDonald
12. Seeing What Isn't There: The Invisible Man and #MeToo
Michelle Kay Hansen
13. Believable: Feminist Resistance of Rape Culture in Netflix's Unbelievable
Tracy Everbach
Contributors
Index
