Darya Foroohar

Blood for Blood: I Spit on Your Grave, Rape-Revenge Narratives, and the Ontology of Horror

Name: Blood for Blood: I Spit on Your Grave, Rape-Revenge Narratives, and the Ontology of Horror
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Blood for Blood: I Spit on Your Grave, Rape-Revenge Narratives, and the Ontology of Horror

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A graphic essay on misogyny in horror and the ways in which narratives of sexual assault are handled, particularly in the slasher sub-genre. When does violence become gratuitous? Is it ever empowering to show graphic sexual assault, even if the victim gets her revenge later in the movie? Foroohar uses the example of I Spit on Your Grave as a case study and examines decades of horror film theory to examine these questions and where we can go from here.

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