What Does a Sympathetic Portrayal of Sexual Assault on Screen Look Like?
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to an end, I’d like to urge viewers and filmmakers to take a long and hard look at how rape is portrayed on screen.

A sonic meditation on the camera as a witness and the so-called ‘landscape of violence.’ 8mm
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to an end, I’d like to urge viewers and filmmakers to take a long and hard look at how rape is portrayed on screen.
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The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
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