I Spit on Your Grave

David Maguire

Published by Columbia University Press 2018

I Spit on Your Grave

David Maguire

In the series Cultographies

https://doi.org/10.7312/magu18875

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About this book

Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is of the most controversial films ever made—both condemned as misogynistic and praised for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. David Maguire investigates the historical, social, and political landscape of the film's release and how it has become ground zero for the rape-revenge genre.

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Maguire David :

David Maguire (MA, Film Studies, University of Bradford) is a programmer and researcher for the Leeds International Film Festival and a communications manager for the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency. He has presented a paper on I Spit on Your Grave at the Cine-Excess international film festival and an examination of the political interpretations of the same film and its sequels at the University of Canterbury’s Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century symposium, and has also presented papers on zombie films and the representation of women in modern rape-revenge films at conferences run by the Universities of Leeds, Bradford, and Sheffield.David Maguire is a programmer for the Leeds International Film Festival’s fantasy/horror strand, with an MA in Film Studies from the University of Bradford.

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It's a fascinating read . . . it's concise and clear in its purpose.

John Squires:
A retrospective book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. History and Herstory in the 1970s and 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2. ‘Only Women Bleed’: Filth or Feminist? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. I Spit on Your Grave and its Legacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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- Other: 12 b&w

eBook

Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9780231851282