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Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens
1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971)
Literary Roots
Rape as Backstory and Trope
Myth of Corrective Rape
Sexual Coercion in Spy Culture
Post-Craig Era
2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
The Last Tango in Paris Controversy
Celebrity Agency and the Conditions of Speaking Out
The Gendered Hierarchies of Fame
The Cultural Politics of Victimhood
Conclusion
Notes
3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night Fever
Notes
4. Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
The Foundational Marital Rape Exemption and Its Links to Witchcraft Mythology
Landmark Marital Rape Case Law in the United States
"It's Women Who Are the Source": Sex with the Devil in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
She Never Looks Dangerous: Renewed Misogyny in The Witches (1990)
Conclusion
6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the Nerds
Dominant White Male
Valuable White Female
Surveillance Technologies, Whiteness, and the Value of the Nonconsensual Image
The Authenticity and Nonconsent of Surveillance
Conclusion: Analog "Revenge Porn"
Notes
7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy
8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
From Historical Narrative to Genre: The Critical Reception of Rape-Revenge Films
Scape Goats, Doubles, and Mimesis: Trauma in the Rape-Revenge Film
Capitalism as Mimetic Desire: A Case of Rape
The Historical Chain of Violence against Women: Trauma, Memory, Affect
Conclusion
Notes
9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Textual Spaces in Fairy Tales and Dragon Tattoos
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Big Screen
Feminist Revenge Heroines before and after #MeToo and #TimesUp
Notes
10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
Sexual Consent in the #MeToo Era
Sex in Teen Films before #MeToo
The Impact of #MeToo on Teen Films
11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
Feminist Re-Presentations in the MeToo Era: Setting the Scene
The Lives of Young Women On Screen Now
Teenage Sex After #MeToo
1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971)
Literary Roots
Rape as Backstory and Trope
Myth of Corrective Rape
Sexual Coercion in Spy Culture
Post-Craig Era
2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
The Last Tango in Paris Controversy
Celebrity Agency and the Conditions of Speaking Out
The Gendered Hierarchies of Fame
The Cultural Politics of Victimhood
Conclusion
Notes
3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night Fever
Notes
4. Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
The Foundational Marital Rape Exemption and Its Links to Witchcraft Mythology
Landmark Marital Rape Case Law in the United States
"It's Women Who Are the Source": Sex with the Devil in The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
She Never Looks Dangerous: Renewed Misogyny in The Witches (1990)
Conclusion
6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the Nerds
Dominant White Male
Valuable White Female
Surveillance Technologies, Whiteness, and the Value of the Nonconsensual Image
The Authenticity and Nonconsent of Surveillance
Conclusion: Analog "Revenge Porn"
Notes
7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy
8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
From Historical Narrative to Genre: The Critical Reception of Rape-Revenge Films
Scape Goats, Doubles, and Mimesis: Trauma in the Rape-Revenge Film
Capitalism as Mimetic Desire: A Case of Rape
The Historical Chain of Violence against Women: Trauma, Memory, Affect
Conclusion
Notes
9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Textual Spaces in Fairy Tales and Dragon Tattoos
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Big Screen
Feminist Revenge Heroines before and after #MeToo and #TimesUp
Notes
10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
Sexual Consent in the #MeToo Era
Sex in Teen Films before #MeToo
The Impact of #MeToo on Teen Films
11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
Feminist Re-Presentations in the MeToo Era: Setting the Scene
The Lives of Young Women On Screen Now
Teenage Sex After #MeToo