Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Screening #MeToo explores the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood, examining films from the 1960s onward and their relationship to sexual violence. Contributors from North America and Europe analyze various genres, highlighting the connection between stories, storytelling, and the culture that produces them.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 273 pages
Publication date: 02 October 2022
Publisher: State University of New York Press

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Screening #MeToo offers a significant and timely examination of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. The collection's essays explore films released from the 1960s onward, a period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Production Code in Hollywood, which led to more frequent and increasingly graphic depictions of sex and violence in mainstream movies. Contributors from North America and Europe examine a diverse range of film genres, including spy films, teen comedies, kitchen sink dramas, coming-of-age stories, rape/revenge films, and horror films. Reflecting the growing social and academic awareness of sexual violence in Hollywood film and its transmission and cultivation of rape culture in the United States and abroad, they are concerned not only with the content of the films under scrutiny but also with the clear relationship between the stories, how they are being told, and the culture that produced them. Screening #MeToo encourages readers to approach mainstream Hollywood films differently, considering issues of art and power, sexuality and consent, and the pleasures and frustrations of critiquing entertainment films from these perspectives.

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781438487601