Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Films: 20th Century and 21st Century:

Representations: Films:
STRAW DOGS

Straw Dogs (1971)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. The film's title derives from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference.
The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and two complicated rape scenes, which were censored by numerous film rating boards. Released theatrically the same year as A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection and Dirty Harry, the film sparked heated controversy over a perceived increase of violence in films generally.« -- More information: Wikipedia



K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Charlie Venner; Fictional Victims: Amy Sumner; Types: General: Rape



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

I. Author Index

[Info] Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton 1992.

[Info] Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton 2015.

[Info] Hall, Sheldon. »Under Siege: The Double Rape of Straw Dogs.« Seventies British Cinema. Edited by Robert Shail. New York 2008: 129-138.

[Info] James, Deveryle. “A Zoo of Lust ... A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”: Interrogating Sexual Violence Against Women in Film 1915-2003. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.

[Info] James, Deveryle. “A Zoo of Lusts ... A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”: An Historical Interrogation of Sexual Violence against Women in Film. Newcastle upon Tyne 2011.

[Info] Simkin, Stevie. Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence. Basingstoke 2006.

[Info] Simkin, Stevie. Straw Dogs. Basingstoke 2011.

[Info] Simkin, Stevie. »Turning the Tables: Sexual Violence in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) and Rod Lurie's 2011 Remake.« Screening Sex (January 11, 2019).

II. Speaker Index

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Straw Dogs (2011)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.« -- More information: Wikipedia



K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21st Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: Charlie Venner; Fictional Victims: Amy Sumner; Types: General: Rape



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

I. Author Index

[Info] Simkin, Stevie. »Turning the Tables: Sexual Violence in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971) and Rod Lurie's 2011 Remake.« Screening Sex (January 11, 2019).

II. Speaker Index

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