Rape and revenge films

Rape and revenge films

Rape and revenge films are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970sFact|date=October 2007. Rape / revenge movies generally follow the same three-act structureDubious|date=March 2008:

* Act I: A woman is gang raped, tortured, and left for dead.
* Act II: The woman survives and rehabilitates herself.
* Act III: The woman kills all of her rapists.

In some cases, the woman is killed at the end of the first act, and the "revenge" is carried out by her family (as in "The Crow" and "The Virgin Spring"). Notable rape / revenge movies include "I Spit On Your Grave", "Lipstick (film)", "They Call Her One Eye", and "Last House on the Left", "Dogville", "Irreversible".Fact|date=August 2008

Although rape / revenge films may imply a moral that the rapists "get what they deserve", the genre is frequently criticizedFact|date=October 2007 for using that moral to justify creating exploitative and lurid rape scenes, followed by exploitative scenes of gruesome violenceFact|date=October 2007.

The genre has attracted critical attention [Clover, Carol J. 1992 "Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film." Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691006202.] [King, Claire Sisco 2003. "Review of "Thelma & Louise" by Marita Sturken and of "The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Rape-Revenge Cycle" by Jacinda Read." http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=aug2003&id=437&section=book_rev (accessed October 6, 2007).] [* Read, Jacinda 2000. "The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Rape-Revenge Cycle". Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5905-4.] . Rape / revenge films have been made in Japan (e.g., Takashi Ishii's "Freeze Me") and in Finland [Makela, Anna (no date). "Political rape, private revenge. The story of sexual violence in Finnish Film and Television". [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:0Vk_2922Is0J:media.utu.fi/emy/AnnaMakela.rtf+rape-revenge&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=101&gl=us] (viewed as HTML; accessed October 6, 2007).] .

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