Dominique Russell

Rape in Art Cinema Dominique Russell Nippod edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; This collection of essays explores the treatment of rape in the 'art cinema' genre. It highlights the prevalence and multiple functions of rape in this prestigious mode of filmmaking and questions the meaning of its ubiquity and versatility. Table of Contents: Introduction: Why Rape?Dominique RussellI. Canonical Works and Auteurs1. Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in Last Year at MarienbadLynn A. Higgins, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College2. Kurosawa's Rashomon and Oshima's The Man Left His Will on Film Eugenie Brinkema, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University3. Bunuel: Stories, Desire and the Question of RapeDominique Russell 4. Materiality and Metaphor: Rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir a tue-tete and Jean-Luc Godard's WeekendShana MacDonald, Communication and Culture, York University5. Rape and Marriage: Die Marquise von O and Breaking the Waves Victoria Anderson, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London6. Rough Awakenings: Unconscious Women and Rape in Kill Bill and Talk to Her Adriana Novoa, Humanities, University of South FloridaII. English-Language Independent Cinemas7. Jane Campion's Women's Films: Art Cinema and the Postfeminist Rape NarrativeShelley Cobb, School of Film and Television, University of East Anglia8. Boys Don't Get RapedAnn J. Cahill, Philosophy, Elon University9. "If it Was a Rape, Then Why Would She Be a Whore?" Rape in Todd Solondz' FilmsMichelle E. Moore, English, College of DuPage III. Case Study: Cinema brut and The New French Extremists10. "Typically French"?: Mediating Screened Rape to British AudiencesMartin Barker, Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth11. On Watching and Turning Away: Ono's Rape, cinema direct Aesthetics and the Genealogy of cinema brutScott MacKenzie, Cinema Studies Institute/Dept. of French, University of Toronto12. Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine PalmsLisa Coulthard, Theatre and Film, UBC13. Sexual Trauma and Jouissance in Baise-Moi Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London14. Shame and the Sisters: Catherine Breillat's a ma soeur! (Fat Girl) Tanya Horeck, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin UniversityNotes on ContributorsPublisher Marketing: This collection of essays explores the treatment of rape in the 'art cinema' genre. It highlights the prevalence and multiple functions of rape in this prestigious mode of filmmaking and questions the meaning of its ubiquity and versatility.