SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Films: Taken

»Taken is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen. In the film, Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA officer, sets out to track down his teenage daughter Kim and her best friend Amanda after they are kidnapped by Albanian human traffickers while on vacation in France.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: French History

III. Topical Index: Types: Purpose: Sex Trafficking

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

I. Author Index

[Info] Andersson, Viktor, et al. En tematisk analys om framställningen av människohandel för sexuella ändamål i filmerna Taken (2008), Skin Trade (2014) & Ruthless (2023). Examensarbete, Högskolan i Gävle, 2025.

[Info] Dominguez, Beatriz. »Trafficking in Popular Culture: Sexual and Gender Abuse in Morel's Taken and Atkinson's One Good Turn.« Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses No. 73 (2016): 103-118.

[Info] Schwarz, Florian. »50 Jahre Dr. Hans Matthäi. Die Darstellung sexueller Gewalt gegen Kinder im kommerziellen Kino.« Sexuelle Gewalt im Film. Edited by Jochem Kotthaus. Weinheim 2015: 208-224.

II. Speaker Index