Reconsidering the body genre: rape-revenge and postfeminist softcore as biocultural phenomena

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dc.contributor.authorAndrews, David
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T09:20:13Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T09:20:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractBody genres represent ideal candidates for biocultural theorisation due to their almost universal effects on audiences. However, not all body genres can be interpreted at the formal level through a direct application of biological ideas; some require an indirect approach that emphasises cultural information as much as biological information. The article pursues this thesis by applying an understanding of heterosexual rape drawn from evolutionary psychology to the motifs of sexual coercion that structure two body genres: rape-revenge and postfeminist softcore. The biocultural approach may be applied in a direct way to rape-revenge, which has often been deemed offensive despite its critiques of male sexual coercion. This direct analysis may then be used as the foundation for a more indirect analysis of postfeminist softcore, a genre that stylises rape to remain inoffensive to women but in the process sacrifices its ability to critique the male aggression predicted by feminists and evolutionists alike.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationAndrews, D. (2014) 'Reconsidering the body genre: rape-revenge and postfeminist softcore as biocultural phenomena', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 7. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.04en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.7.04
dc.identifier.endpage78
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued7
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage57
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5845
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleAndrews.html
dc.rights© 2014, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectBioculturalen
dc.subjectFeministen
dc.subjectEvolutionary psychologyen
dc.subjectBody genreen
dc.subjectSexual coercionen
dc.subjectRape-revengeen
dc.subjectPostfeminist softcoreen
dc.titleReconsidering the body genre: rape-revenge and postfeminist softcore as biocultural phenomenaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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