Notes on Revenge Movies (An abstract from a lecture I’d rather make art about my own body than research for)
Content notes: refers briefly to sexual assault in revenge movies.
Cishet revenge movies sell trauma as spectacle, make victims of perpetrators & are not transformative for survivors.
Safety for me is putting people’s body & emotional needs ahead of my own.
An abstract from a lecture I’d rather make art about my own body than research for.
Intersectional Feminist Questions for FilmMakers making films with sexual assault:
1. Do you wish to end rape culture?
2. Who is centered here? Is it the survivor?
3. Do you actively want to grow consent culture?
Revenge spectacles sideline critique & decentre survivors.
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