https://vo.rs/tags/rape-revenge/Latest from the Rape-Revenge desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-rape-revenge-film-and-its-uneasy-politics/<p>Few subgenres are as difficult to defend or as difficult to dismiss as rape-revenge. Its structure is brutally simple — a woman is assaulted, the systems that should protect her fail, and she takes justice into her own hands — and that structure contains a contradiction the films can never fully resolve. To stage the revenge as justice, the film must first stage the violation, and in staging the violation it risks becoming the very thing it claims to condemn. Half a century of these films, and decades of serious criticism about them, are essentially an argument with that contradiction. This is a look at the argument rather than the imagery, which is where the real interest lies.</p>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000