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Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film: Gaslighting

Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film: Gaslighting

Shoos, Diane L.

Hardcover

CriminologyFilm StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 3319650637
ISBN13: 9783319650630
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 11 2018
Pages: 175
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What's Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of postfeminism, domestic abuse post-awareness, and familiar genre conventions, these films engage in ideological gaslighting that reaffirms our preconceived ideas about men as abusers, women as victims, and the racial and class politics of domestic violence. While the films purport to condemn abuse and empower abused women, this study proposes that they tacitly reinforce the very attitudes that we believe we no longer tolerate. Shoos argues that films like these limit not only popular understanding but also social and institutional interventions.

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