The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
Description:
As the written accompaniment for The Luxury of Tears, a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape events in such manner which contributes to the thematization of social silence. Such silence perpetuates the feminization of rape as a social prob…
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Date:
December 1999
Creator:
McKinney, Kelli
Partner:
UNT Libraries