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Embracing Rape: Understanding the Attractions of Exploitation Movies

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Controversial Images

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The purpose of this chapter is to take the much-debated topic of screened rape and sexual violence, and to bring to bear on it some empirical evidence about audience responses, deliberately taking as my focal film one which has been deemed by many to be ‘trash’, ‘worthless’ and straightforwardly ‘dangerous’.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Middlesex University, UK

    Feona Attwood

  2. University of Leicester, UK

    Vincent Campbell

  3. De Montfort University, UK

    I. Q. Hunter

  4. Brunel University, UK

    Sharon Lockyer

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Barker, M. (2013). Embracing Rape: Understanding the Attractions of Exploitation Movies. In: Attwood, F., Campbell, V., Hunter, I.Q., Lockyer, S. (eds) Controversial Images. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291998_14

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