Visualising Shattered Lives: Potentiality in Representations of Rape Victimisation in Contemporary Japan

Visualising Shattered Lives: Potentiality in Representations of Rape Victimisation in Contemporary Japan

This article examines how cinematic representations of rape can challenge the silence which surrounds the issue of rape and sexual violence in Japan. A textual analysis of two contemporary fictional Japanese films, DV: Domestic Violence [2005] and The Ravine of Goodbye [2013], was performed to illus...

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Main Author: Hei-Lei Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2016-07-01
Series:New Voices in Japanese Studies
Subjects:
Japan
cinema
Japanese cinema
film
gender
rape
representation
domestic violence
women
sexual violence
spectatorship
Online Access:http://newvoices.org.au/volume-8/visualising-shattered-lives-potentiality-in-representations-of-rape-victimisation-in-contemporary-japanese-cinema/

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