Episode 113: The Rape Revenge Thriller

Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast

English - September 23, 2021 20:20 - 1 hour - 172 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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A content warning to all of our listeners: we're discussion rape revenge movies, their history, and their place in our current cultural environment. Which may not be the discussion for you! We look at the genre's beginnings and how women in film are reclaiming it to make their own statements.

Homework for the episode: The Last House on the Left (1972, dir. Wes Craven); Revenge (2017, dir. Coralie Fargeat); Promising Young Woman (2020, dir. Emerald Fennell)

The article Martha reads from: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-promising-young-woman-refigures-the-rape-revenge-movie