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Screening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Production Code in Hollywood, which resulted in more frequent and increasingly graphic images of sex and violence being included in mainstream movies. Focusing on narratives in which surveillance and sexual violence feature prominently, contributors from North America and Europe examine a variety of film genres, including spy films, teen comedies, kitchen sink dramas, coming-of-age stories, rape/revenge films, and horror films. Reflecting the increasing social and academic awareness of sexual violence in Hollywood film and its transmission and cultivation of rape culture in the United States and abroad, they are concerned not only with the content of the films under scrutiny but also with the clear relationship between the stories, how they are being told, and the culture that produced them.Screening #MeToo challenges readers to look at mainstream Hollywood films differently, in light of attitudes about art and power, sexuality and consent, and the pleasures and frustrations of criticizing "entertainment" films from these perspectives.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens
Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau

Part I: Sexual Politics and Violence in Established Genres

1. Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962–1971)
Lisa Funnell

2. Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood
Sabrina Moro

3. A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, andSaturday Night Fever
Katherine Karlin

4. Deny the Beast:The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture
Brian Brems

5. A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America
Emily Naser-Hall

Part II: Consequences and the Fixing Gaze: Surveillance and Rape/Revenge

6. "The Rapiest Film of the 1980s": Analog "Revenge Porn," Raced and Gendered Surveillance, andRevenge of the Nerds
Julia Chan

7. "Nothing happened to her that she didn't invite": Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and theScream Trilogy
Brittany Caroline Speller

8. Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes
Amanda Spallacci

9. Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine inThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nicole Burkholder-Mosco

Part III: Teen Comedies and Women's Horror Stories in the #MeToo Era

10. Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo
Michele Meek

11. Flipping the Script on Consent: Recentering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies
Shana MacDonald

12. Seeing What Isn't There: The Invisible Man and #MeToo
Michelle Kay Hansen

13. Believable: Feminist Resistance of Rape Culture in Netflix'sUnbelievable
Tracy Everbach

Contributors
Index