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Screening #MeToo : rape culture in Hollywood / edited by Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Funnell, Lisa, 1980-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Motion picture industry > Social aspects > California > Los Angeles > History.
Sex crimes > California > Los Angeles > History.
MeToo movement.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens
  • #MeToo Movement
  • Screening #Me Too
  • To Be Continued ...
  • Works Cited
  • 1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971)
  • Literary Roots
  • Rape as Backstory and Trope
  • Myth of Corrective Rape
  • Sexual Coercion in Spy Culture
  • Post-Craig Era
  • Works Cited
  • 2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
  • The Last Tango in Paris Controversy
  • Celebrity Agency and the Conditions of Speaking Out.
  • The Gendered Hierarchies of Fame
  • The Cultural Politics of Victimhood
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night Fever
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 4. Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
  • Works Cited
  • 5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
  • The Foundational Marital Rape Exemption and Its Links to Witchcraft Mythology
  • Landmark Marital Rape Case Law in the United States
  • "It's Women Who Are the Source": Sex with the Devil in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
  • She Never Looks Dangerous: Renewed Misogyny in The Witches (1990)
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • 6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the Nerds
  • Dominant White Male
  • Valuable White Female
  • Surveillance Technologies, Whiteness, and the Value of the Nonconsensual Image
  • The Authenticity and Nonconsent of Surveillance
  • Conclusion: Analog "Revenge Porn"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy
  • Works Cited.
  • 8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
  • From Historical Narrative to Genre: The Critical Reception of Rape-Revenge Films
  • Scape Goats, Doubles, and Mimesis: Trauma in the Rape-Revenge Film
  • Capitalism as Mimetic Desire: A Case of Rape
  • The Historical Chain of Violence against Women: Trauma, Memory, Affect
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Textual Spaces in Fairy Tales and Dragon Tattoos
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Big Screen.
  • Feminist Revenge Heroines before and after #MeToo and #TimesUp
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • 10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
  • Sexual Consent in the #MeToo Era
  • Sex in Teen Films before #MeToo
  • The Impact of #MeToo on Teen Films
  • Works Cited
  • 11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
  • Feminist Re-Presentations in the MeToo Era: Setting the Scene
  • The Lives of Young Women On Screen Now
  • Teenage Sex After #MeToo
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited.

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