Editorial Reviews
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"This is a thoroughly absorbing and thought-provoking study of representations of rape across a range of media forms, from Rousseau to reality TV. The questions it raises about the significance of public fantasies of rape in relation to spectatorship and the civic bond make it essential reading for anyone engaged in cultural and media studies."
–Carrie Tarr, Kingston University, UK
"Public Rape is a fascinating study of textual and cinematic representations of rape. On the deepest level, Horeck successfully argues rape discourse to reveal crucial aspects of how we are encouraged to relate to representation, exploring the complex relationships among images of sexual violation and anxieties about spectatorship and rapidly changing visual technologies. This book will change the way in which we think about rape as well as opening new ways of thinking about how representations affect us."
–Amelia Jones, University of Manchester, UK
Book Description
Second-wave feminism's mission was to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of "public rape", Horeck looks at how images of rape - from news stories to Hollywood films and popular fiction - serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Public Rape argues that the concept of fantasy, while much maligned in traditional feminist writing on sexual violence, is the key to understanding the investment in narratives of rape.
Public Rape: Representations of Violation in Fiction and Film (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication)
Public Rape: Representations of Violation in Fiction and Film (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication),TANYA HORECK,Routledge,0415288568,Feminist,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Popular Culture - General,Semiotics & Theory,Social Science,Sociology,Violence in Society,Women's Studies - General,Cultural studies,Sexual abuse,Women's studies
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