The date rape backlash : the media and the denial of rape /

How did date rape shift from a "shockingly frequentoutrage," as Newsweek once called it, to a controversy over "crying rape," as New York Magazine later labeled it? Academy award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) guides us through complicated intersections...

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Corporate Author:	Kanopy (Firm)
Other Authors:	Bartone, Joe, DiNozzi, Robert, Graham, Jeffrey, Jhally, Sut, Yglesius, Paul
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Subjects:	Acquaintance rape > United States. Acquaintance rape > United States > Public opinion. Feminism. Mass media > United States. Rape in mass media. Rape > United States > Public opinion. Rape > United States. Television and women > United States. Television broadcasting > United States. Women in mass media. Women > Crimes against > United States. Women's studies. Media (Ancient kingdom) United States > Social conditions > 1980- Internet videos. Nonfiction films. Documentary films.
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Summary:	How did date rape shift from a "shockingly frequentoutrage," as Newsweek once called it, to a controversy over "crying rape," as New York Magazine later labeled it? Academy award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) guides us through complicated intersections of gender, sex, power and violence, while Susan Faludi, bell hooks, and others expose this shift as a classic case of media "backlash" against women's autonomy.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file, 57 min.)
Format:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience:	Grade 9+ Higher education.
Production Credits:	Writer/producer/editor, Sut Jhally ; associate producer, Robert Dinozzi ; camera, Paul Yglesius, Robert Dinozzi, Jeffrey Graham ; music, Joe Bartone.