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The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television examines the contentious nature of the female rape survivor turned avenger in rape-revenge stories. The focus is on a trend of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women directors. Vaage asks what it might mean for women in particular to watch female avengers, and suggests that the reason some women filmmakers explore the rape-revenge convention is because it is all about an emotion that is difficult for women, and used to label women as difficult, namely anger.
The central premise in this book is that understanding the emotions stirred up by this type of story is crucial in order to understand its recurring, controversial presence in popular culture, and also its potential value. Vaage offers a cultural and political analysis of contemporary rape-revenge film made by women grounded in the psychological and philosophical study of the emotions.
Contents
Introduction: the controversy of the rape-revenge film
Chapter 1: The affective structure of the rape-revenge film
Chapter 2: On punishment, fiction and femininity
Chapter 3: On revenge: rape-revenge storylines and the evolutionary origin of payback
Chapter 4: On anger: a philosophical exploration of women's anger and its functions
Chapter 5: Race and the rape-revenge film
Chapter 6: Containing the threat of the female avenger on-screen
Chapter 7: Emotions in contemporary film theory and rape-revenge film as exploitative
Conclusion: the rape-revenge convention in complex contexts
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