Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Rape?
Dominique Russell

I. Canonical Works and Auteurs

1. Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in Last Year at Marienbad
Lynn A.Higgins,
Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College

2.  Kurosawa's Rashomon and Oshima's The Man Left His Will on Film 
Eugenie Brinkema,
Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

3. Buñuel: Stories, Desire and the Question of Rape
Dominique Russell

4. Materiality and Metaphor: Rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend
Shana MacDonald,
Communication and Culture, York University

5. Rape and Marriage: Die Marquise von O and Breaking the Waves
Victoria Anderson,
Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London

6. Rough Awakenings: Unconscious Women and Rape in Kill Bill and Talk to Her Adriana Novoa,
Humanities, University of South Florida

II. English-Language Independent Cinemas

7. Jane Campion's Women's Films: Art Cinema and the Postfeminist Rape Narrative
Shelley Cobb,
School of Film and Television, University of East Anglia

8. Boys Don't Get Raped
Ann J. Cahill,
Philosophy, Elon University

9. "If it Was a Rape, Then Why Would She Be a Whore?" Rape in Todd Solondz' Films
Michelle E. Moore,
English, College of DuPage

 III. Case Study: Cinéma brut and The New French Extremists

10. "Typically French"?: Mediating Screened Rape to British Audiences
Martin Barker,
Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth

11. On Watching and Turning Away: Ono's Rape, cinéma direct Aesthetics and the Genealogy of cinéma brut
Scott MacKenzie,
Cinema Studies Institute/Dept. of French, University of Toronto

12. Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms
Lisa Coulthard,
Theatre and Film, UBC

13. Sexual Trauma and Jouissance in Baise-Moi
Joanna Bourke,
Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

14. Shame and the Sisters: Catherine Breillat's À ma soeur! (Fat Girl)
Tanya Horeck,
Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University

Notes on Contributors

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A unique collection of essays exploring the treatment of rape in the "art cinema" genre - this is an interdisciplinary, groundbreaking study.

About the Author

Dominique Russell has taught at a number of Canadian universities, including the University of Western Ontario, York, Brock, and the University of British Columbia. She is the author of numerous articles on film sound and Spanish and Latin American cinema, including publications in Jumpcut, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, and Literature Film Quarterly.