Narratives of transformation : feminism, femininity and the rape-revenge cycle

This thesis analyses the 'rape-revenge' films of the post- 1970 period. Against the tendency of existing work in this area to categorize rape-revenge as a sub-genre of horror, I argue that rape-revenge is better understood as a narrative structure which, on meeting the discourses of second...

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Main Author: Read, Jacinda
Published: University of Warwick 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340098