Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why rape? / Dominique Russell -- Canonical works and auteurs: Screen/memory : rape and its alibis in Last year at Marienbad / Lynn A. Higgins ; The fault lines of vision : Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema ; Bu�nuel : storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell -- Materiality and metaphor : rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir �a tue-t�ete and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald ; Sins of permission : the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise Von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson ; Rough awakenings : unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa -- English-language independent cinemas: Jane Campion's women's films : art cinema and the postfeminist rape narrative / Shelley Cobb ; Boys don't get raped / Ann J. Cahill ; "If it was a rape, then why would she be a whore?" : rape in Todd Solondz' films / Michelle E. Moore -- Case study : Cin�ema brut and the new French extremists: "Typically French"? : mediating screened rape to British audiences / Martin Barker ; On watching and turning away : Ono's Rape, cin�ema direct aesthetics and the genealogy of cin�ema brut / Scott MacKenzie ; Uncanny horrors : male rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard ; Sexual trauma and jouissance in Baise-moi / Joanna Bourke ; Shame and the sisters : Catherine Breillat's �A ma soeur! (Fat Girl) / Tanya Horeck.

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