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The new avengers : feminism, femininity and the rape-revenge cycle / Jacinda Read

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside popular filmPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000Description: viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780719059049 .
  • 9780719059049 .
Other title:
  • Feminism, femininity and the rape-revenge cycle
Subject(s): Summary: Jacinda Read studies the rape-revenge film, and suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.
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General General ATU Wellpark Road General Shelves 791.43652042 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G102021

Filmography: p. [257]-264.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-282) and index.

Jacinda Read studies the rape-revenge film, and suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.

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