How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television
2020; University of California Press; Volume: 74; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/fq.2020.74.2.100
ISSN1533-8630
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoBritish and American television shows frequently deploy rape and sexual assault to juice up characters’ backstories or titillate viewers, but they rarely focus on how one assault impacts multiple people’s lives or how intersectional oppression further traumatizes assault survivors. FQ columnist Caetlin Benson-Allott suggests that this may change in the wake of Michaela Coel’s incendiary series I May Destroy You (BBC One and HBO, 2020), which has answered a need for more artistically ambitious television about black life and for feminist-of-color critiques of rape culture on television. Hailing the series for its formal innovations as well as its generic and political interventions, Benson-Allott argues that I May Destroy You elevates its genre, and television more broadly, by contesting their prior shortcomings.
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