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While it is not appropriate to always portray women as victims, or as incapable of sexual autonomy, the circumstances in Fury are certainly inherently coercive.
- Female Rage and Vengeance as A Genre
- Jennifer's Body and The Me Too Movement
- Hapless Victims
- Are They Harmless Escapism, Or Promoting Dangerous Ideas?
- Why These Films Matter
It’s hard not to root for Amy Dunne up to a certain point. Granted, she starts to lose even some of her most emphatic support when she turns to cold-blooded murder, but the “cool girl” monologue tells more than a few hard truths. For a female audience that has long suffered under the yoke of patriarchal disadvantage, it is easy to share in Amy’s in...
Another such film that portrays female fury is Jennifer’s Body, the newfound popularity of which is very telling in terms of the growing fan base for the “good for her” genre. Upon its release, Jennifer’s Bodywas fully a flop. A decade after its release, however, the film reemerged into the public consciousness with fresh support. For one, the come...
Contrastingly, some of these films feature female characters that are objectively hapless victims at the start of the plot, but who manage to turn the tables and come out on top in the end without sacrificing their own integrity. One such film is Knives Out, in which Ana De Armas plays Marta, a kind and hard-working nurse caught in a web of deceit ...
A common theme in these “good for her” films is that the women at the center of them are often well-to-do women with vast resources at their disposal. This is not always the case, as Grace in Ready or Not was a former foster child, and Marta in Knives Out is presumed to be a Latin American immigrant. Jennifer Check was a child and murder victim. Fo...
Discourse on the “good for her” genre is important. Whether you love them or hate them, there are valid points to be made on either side. At the end of the day, regardless of how one may evaluate them, these films do matter. As a male-dominated industry, the film industry has long toyed with a number of controversial male stories and characters wit...
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Sep 12, 2022 · These movies also deal with themes of domestic violence and abuse. For a complete list of all 35 films, check out ”35 Movies Survivors Say Accurately Depict Domestic Violence” . Not Without My Daughter (1991) Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) Purple Rain (1984)
Apr 10, 2020 · In 2014, David Ayers directed the 135-minute World War II film Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Jon Bernthal and Michael Peña. Laced with emotional arguments about respect, and God; this film is not the anger-driven rampage that its title and opening credits might lead you to believe. Actually, under the aggressive, testosterone-driven ...
Beyond news media, fictional television and film portrayals of sexual assault carry implications for rape myth acceptance as well. In a broad sense, exposure to degrading and violent media portrayals of women is related to desensitization to violence against women in general (Linz, Donnerstein, & Penrod, 1988).
- Kristen C Elmore, Tracy M Scull, Christina V Malik, Janis B Kupersmidt
- 2021
Horror films often confront forms of violence which are otherwise overlooked by the media, such as harassment, stalking and coercive control and in the #MeToo era, the genre is increasingly focused on the impact of violence against women and the creative (if horrific and extreme) ways that victims can survive and resist violence (see Revenge, M ...
Jan 12, 2017 · In the 1970s and ’80s, exploitation thrillers like “I Spit on Your Grave” and “Ms. 45” featured female victims who killed their own rapists, though they were largely maligned as cult vehicles...
