Safety, Danger and the Movies: Women's and Men's Narratives of Aggression
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology
- Vol. 4 (4) , 547-570
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353594044009
Abstract
Most stories about aggression belong either to the `Insider Gothic' or to the `Outsider Gothic' narrative genre, both of which are common in contemporary films. Through these genres, both women and men express and develop ambivalent relationships with aggression: these include fear and resistance, pleasure and condemnation. Within the narratives, though, zones of safety are much narrower for women than for men, and resistance is more private.Keywords
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