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The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

Directed by

 Jack Clayton

Written by

Harold Pinter

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...Large House In St John's Wood, London. Summer Day. Present Day. Bonnet of a Jaguar foreground. Jo is standing at the window, looking out. Reflected in the window pane demolition of buildings, tall skeletons of new constructions....

“If It Was a Rape, Then Why Would She Be a Whore?” Rape in Todd Solondz’ Films

Michelle E. Moore

Michelle E. Moore

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...Since Welcometo the Dollhouse (US, 1996), a “painfully funny” portrait of adolescent hell in suburban New Jersey, Todd Solondz has challenged audiences and critics with his increasingly dark comedies. Happiness (US, 1998), Storytelling (US,...

“Typically French“?: Mediating Screened Rape to British Audiences

Martin Barker

Martin Barker

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...It is very typically French. It expresses feelings rather than character and they are genuine enough.Malcolm, Derek. “Review of Les Chansons D'Amour,” Evening Standard (London, December...

Shame and the Sisters: Catherine Breillat's À Ma Soeur! (Fat Girl)

Tanya Horeck

Tanya Horeck

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...Catherine Breillat's powerful portrayals of heterosexual sex and female desire have earned her a prominent place in the group of directors that have come to be known as the “new French extremists.”James Quandt. “Flesh & Blood: Sex...

On Watching and Turning Away: Ono's Rape, Cinéma Direct Aesthetics, and the Genealogy of Cinéma Brut

Scott Mackenzie

Scott Mackenzie

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

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...I wonder how men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have...

Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in Last Year at Marienbad

Lynn A. Higgins

Lynn A. Higgins

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...Although it enjoyed a succès de scandale when it was released in 1961 and quickly became a cult film, L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year atMarienbad), directed by Alain Resnais from a script by Alain Robbe-Grillet, is still considered...

Materiality and Metaphor: Rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend

Shana MacDonald

Shana MacDonald

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...Cinematic representations of rape foreground the gendered power dynamics inherent in the film medium's institutional structure. While feminist criticism has long pointed out the problematic position of women both on-screen...

Jane Campion's Women's Films: Art Cinema and the Postfeminist Rape Narrative

Shelley Cobb

Shelley Cobb

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

Book chapter

...In Campion's world, desire always places women in danger — whether the desire is their own or someone else's. The danger, desire, and sex in Jane Campion's In the Cut (Australia/US/UK, 2003) begins with Frannie, the protagonist played...

Rough Awakenings: Unconscious Women and Rape in Kill Bill and Talk to Her

Adriana Novoa

Adriana Novoa

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

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...Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar have both been identified with a hybrid cinema, characterized by the fact that a “prominence of any one genre may vary from one moment to the next.”Ira Jaffe. Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres...

Sexual Trauma and Jouissance in Baise-Moi

Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke

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Rape in Art Cinema

Continuum, 2010

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...Baise-Moi (2000) circles relentlessly around acts of transgression. Initially, the violence is masculine. Then, abruptly, brutality becomes feminine. As perpetrators of violence, the two female protagonists immerse themselves in jouissance,...