they now focus on the women, instead of their dads
- Written by Isobella Austin, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Screen Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
Bruce Willis in Death Wish (2018)IMDBNarratives around sexual assault in Hollywood are changing – on screen and off.
There is a longstanding genre of film dedicated to depicting the crime of rape as it affects the fathers of the victims, showing fathers dishing out violent retribution.
Contemporary directors have been moving away from...





