Rape in Art Cinema Book

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Introduction Why Rape? Dominique Russell Russell, Dominique 1

I Canonical Works and Auteurs

Ch. 1 Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in Last Year at Marienbad Lynn A. Higgins Higgins, Lynn A. 15

Ch. 2 The Fault Lines of Vision: Rashomon and The Man Who Left His Will on Film Eugenie Brinkema Brinkema, Eugenie 27

Ch. 3 Bunuel: Storytelling, Desire and the Question of Rape Dominique Russell Russell, Dominique 41

Ch. 4 Materiality and Metaphor: Rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir a tue-tete and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend Shana MacDonald MacDonald, Shana 55

Ch. 5 Sins of Permission: The Union of Rape and Marriage in Die Marquise von O and Breaking the Waves Victoria Anderson Anderson, Victoria 69

Ch. 6 Rough Awakenings: Unconscious Women and Rape in Kill Bill and Talk to Her Adriana Novoa Novoa, Adriana 83

II English-Language Independent Cinemas

Ch. 7 Jane Campion's Women's Films: Art Cinema and the Postfeminist Rape Narrative Shelley Cobb Cobb, Shelley 99

Ch. 8 Boys Don't Get Raped Ann J. Cahill Cahill, Ann J. 113

Ch. 9 "If It Was a Rape, Then Why Would She Be a Whore?" Rape in Todd Solondz' Films Michelle E. Moore Moore, Michelle E. 129

III Case Study: Cinema Brut and the New French Extremists

Ch. 10 "Typically French"?: Mediating Screened Rape to British Audiences Martin Barker Barker, Martin 145

Ch. 11 On Watching and Turning Away: Ono's Rape, Cinema Direct Aesthetics, and the Genealogy of Cinema Brut Scott MacKenzie MacKenzie, Scott 159

Ch. 12 Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms Lisa Coulthard Coulthard, Lisa 171

Ch. 13 Sexual Trauma and Jouissance in Baise-Moi Joanna Bourke Bourke, Joanna 185

Ch. 14 Shame and the Sisters: Catherine Breillat's A Ma Soeur! (Fat Girl) Tanya Horeck Horeck, Tanya 195

Notes 211

Index 239