Abstract
Rape-revenge narratives have a long history in film, and they have notoriously been used by male filmmakers as a way to talk about broader issues while neglecting the particular experiences of sexual assault survivors. What this paper aims to bring to the fore is the progression of rape-revenge narratives when it comes to the representation of sexual assault trauma on a personal and collective level – the former looking at how the characters cope with their traumas and the former fitting the films within a wider discourse of sexual assault. In doing so the paper will present a comparative analysis of older films directed by men and newer films directed by women (mainly post-#metoo) to investigate how recent films are updating rape-revenge tropes and adopting diverse narrative structures in order to prioritise the characters’ post-rape traumas and the various ways they manifest (in nightmares, flashbacks and fractured memories).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | InMind Support |
| Publication status | Unpublished - 2022 |
| Event | Trauma and Nightmare: 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference - Duration: 17 Sept 2022 → 18 Sept 2022 |
Conference
| Conference | Trauma and Nightmare |
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| Period | 17/09/22 → 18/09/22 |