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"2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Screening #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."

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Author:   Lisa Funnell ,  Ralph Beliveau
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438487601

ISBN 10:   1438487606
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   02 October 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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"

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Screening #MeToo provides a significant contribution to the field of film and feminist media studies by examining and analyzing the ways in which Hollywood films have shaped our understanding of rape and its impact on our society. As the first collection to directly address the interconnections between Hollywood films and rape culture, the book will provide the basis for a much broader analysis of the ways in which rape has been portrayed throughout US popular culture, and how these representations have both negatively and positively impacted the ways in which we make sense of rape culture in our society. - Sarah Nilsen, University of Vermont

Author Information

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.

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