Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

»Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe, based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, which was later published as a book. The film stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn and is based on the events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam War, in which a Vietnamese woman was kidnapped from her village, raped, and murdered by a squad of American soldiers. All names and some details of the true story were altered for the film.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Asian History: Vietnamsese History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Thomas E. Clark, Antonio Dìaz, Herbert Hatcher, Tony Meserve; Fictional Victims: Tran Thi Oanh; Real Incidents: Incident on Hill 192 | Types: Offenders: Gang Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Boczar, Amanda C. »Economics, Empathy, and Expectation: History and Representation of Rape and Prostitution in Late 1980s Vietnam War Films.« Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn. Edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff et al. Lanham 2015: 69-94.

[Info] Lee, Hyung S. »인종적, 성적, 정치적 타자의 삭제를 통한 미국 남성성의 회복: 전쟁의 사상자들.« (Journal of Literature and Film) 17 (2016): 391-409.

[Info] Muzamil, Sania. »War and Memory: Remembering Women’s Bodies in War Through a Reading of Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War.« Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond. Edited by Simi Malhotra et al. Singapore 2025: 199-213.

[Info] St-Laurent, Kelly. Weapon of War: Representations of Sexual Violence in Contemporary American War Cinema. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015.

[Info] Weaver, Gina M. Ideologies of Forgetting: American Erasure of Women's Sexual Trauma in the Vietnam War. Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, 2006.

[Info] Worthy, Kathleen M. Ideological Complicity in Vietnam War Narratives from "the Quiet American" to "Miss Saigon". Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992.

II. Speaker Index