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Gender And Sexual Violence In Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused

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The way gender and sexual violence are configured in rape films point to an exemplification of the fears within society that concern sexual and social distinction. Films with images of rape saturate our screens and in turn, have brought the crime into the public sphere. This ultimately highlights public fantasies that demonstrate the collective wishes and desires of a misogynistic society. The plethora of images of sexual violence within popular culture commonly constructs the female gender as inferior and subordinate within a patriarchal society. This has a pervasive effect on the life of the community, through the way it both reflects the notions of a misogynistic reality and informs ideas and perceptions of femininity and sexual violence. …show more content…

These tropes, including the myth of the common rape victim and circumstance, the male gaze in actively surveying a female’s ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ and the value of truth assigned to women in the courtroom all provoke manifestations of the oppression of the female body and the fears of society that come with this. These representations of gender and sexual violence culminate in a study of Jonathan Kaplan’s The Accused (1988), the portrayal of the brutal gang rape of Sarah Tobias by three men in a bar fostering notions of this ‘female rape fantasy’, which the film tries to repair but still projects. Therefore, an investigation into how gender and sexual violence are shaped in rape films demonstrates a societal fear in regards to the sexuality of

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