#violence in film

[holly-media201]

Research reading 8

This is another academic article, under my subheading 'solutions'. By solutions, I mean potential ways to improve the portrayal of sexual violence in cinema. This again is focusing on the idea of 'How should sexual assault be portrayed in Cinema to be less offensive?'

The main points from the article are as follows:

The main problem is media often portrays the trauma itself rather than the effects of trauma on the individual.

Even if rape scenes in films make people feel empathetic, viewers are unlikely to change their attitude long term. It is more likely to cause a positive response towards removing sexual assault acceptance if the film were to focus on the effects rather than an event.

A depiction of rape on screen would have to be rhetorical to widen to understand rape trauma beyond the event. It should be seen as personal, unconscious, cultural, and visual mediation of traumatic memory in order to shift current discourses.

Again, this is helpful for me to either focus specifically on the 'correct portrayal' of sexual assault in cinema. Or, this kind of discussion it is a way for me to conclude my research.

Spallacci, A. (2019). Representing Rape Trauma in Film: Moving beyond the event. Arts, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8010008

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Stacy’s mom from the hit song Stacy’s mom is Jigsaw from hit movie series Saw. My gym teacher and I were stuck in the first Saw trap. I beat her up with a radiator and then chased Stacy’s mom in a high stakes chase scene.

Good dream.

[wuntrum]

open to suggestions

[industryhbo]

Music in Film: Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

[deputyrook]

"oh no, that's hot" - sexual awakening through horror - a gifset for every person who ever watched a scene in a horror movie that made them feel something they'd never felt before, knowing it wasn't the 'right' thing to feel.

[ad1thi]

Justin baldoni decided to adapt It Ends With Us because he thought that stories about domestic violence, and specifically escaping and life beyond domestic violence deserved to be platformed.

Instead of being supported, he’s been mean girl’d by the cast; that’s treating the film like its this cutesy rom com : and I think this rly encapsulates everything that’s wrong with the book, and the fanbase it’s amassed

[dead-air-radio]

Men who are cut up <33

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

*Angel and Husk taking Nuggets for a walk, minding their business*

Some rando: Slut!

Angel: *stops*

Angel: Hold my pig-

Husk: Kick his ass, baby. I got your pig-

[ohmovie]

BLOOD & STEEL & LONGING

Hannibal (2013–2015)│Fallout (2024 – present)│Shadow 影 (2018)│House of the Dragon (2022 – present)│Princess Mononokeもののけ姫 (1997)│Dark (2017–2020)│Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)│Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍 (2000)│Hero 英雄 (2002)│Dune: Part One (2021)│My Country: The New Age 나의 나라 (2019)│Inception (2010)│A Brighter Summer Day 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (1991)│The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

[notbecauseofvictories]

very strongly feel that moist/adora is the only actual romantic relationship terry pratchett ever wrote.

[holly-media201]

Focus on Violence against Women

Out of the topics that I have considered, I think the topic of most interest to me is the portrayal of violence towards women in film, potentially focusing on the effect this has on audiences and the way it normalises poor treatment towards women.

From this start of a topic here is my initial question that will continue to need to be refined and made more specific.

How does the portrayal of violence against women in cinema affect the audience and their relationship towards women? 

From here I can make the question more detailed

What are the psychological and sociocultural effects of portraying violence against women in cinema on audience perceptions, attitudes and behaviours?

However, this is still extremely broad. I think one way of me reducing my search is to focus on a specific type of violence against women. Either, sexual violence or domestic and choose specific series, genre etc. My first two readings are each going to focus on a different violence in media: sexual and domestic as a place to start.

While doing this initial research I am trying to reach an argument around how violence is poorly portrayed and it normalises violence in real-world behaviour. My argument, however, is not going to conclude with removing all violence from cinema (because these can still be important stories to be told) but instead focusing on the poor treatment towards these issues and the disregard for the impact it leaves on an audience.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (Sergio Martino, 1973)

[deathtastegirl]

video violence (1987)

[crueldesire]

the eroticism/intimacy of wounds

the wounded body: remembering the markings of flesh, dennis patrick slattery /crash (1996) dir. david cronenberg / I will destroy you, nick flynn / wuthering heights (2011) dir. andrea arnold / antiviral (2012) dir. brandon cronenberg / I will destroy you, nick flynn / crimes of the future (2022) dir. david cronenberg / arrhythmia, shastra deo / sharp objects (2018) dir. jean-marc vallée / death by sex machine, franny choi

[bikkinibottom]

actually to bring up how watered down and sanitized the first 3 episodes of percy jackson has been, it raises concerns for later books. the stakes are supposed to be high from book 1 and the bar continues to be raised. it’s an action packed series with monsters and gods and deadly quests. there’s the possibility of being killed. which raises the question, when titan’s curse rolls around, how will they handle not one but two character deaths? this is the book that’s the turning point in the series, where everyone senses this tonal shift and that they’re favorite characters could actually die. that kronos is serious and this impending war will be real, with real casualties, injuries, and intense battle scenes. how do you sanitize a literal war?