Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies:
GETTING EVEN: A HISTORY OF THE RAPE REVENGE FILM

Monday June 6 + Monday June 13 – 6-9pm

at Blue Sunshine Film Centre – 3660 St-Laurent, 3rd Flr

Registration: $43.oo

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No genre gets a worse rap that the rape-revenge http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2021/03/canada-cialis/ film. Cited as unrelentingly misogynistic, and viewed as perpetuating real-life violence against women, rape-revenge films are considered the bottom-of-the-barrel even cialis cheap no prescription among exploitation fans. Alternately (and often facetiously) referred to as the “women’s revenge picture”, I maintain that rape-revenge is just that: a cathartic and empowering vehicle for female cinematic rage. A rape scene is the single greatest justification for anything else in the film that follows – no matter how illogical, unbelievable, sadistic, misanthropic, graphic or tortuous. Rape-revenge films, like horror films in general, prize vigilante justice, and the audience will accept any direction the story takes because culturally, rape is cheap discount levitra worse than death.

This course traces the history of the rape-revenge genre from its roots in the 4^th century Swedish folk tale that inspired Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring through the genre’s peak period in the 70s + 80s, to contemporary rape-revenge films such as Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible and the remakes of Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave. Utilizing numerous clips from rare films, this course will examine the evolution of the woman’s revenge picture, assessing its tragic character trajectory, its common narrative and tonal structure, and its controversial place in pop culture.  Instructor: Kier-La Janisse

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Ce cours retrace l’histoire du film de viol-et-vengeance, de ses origines suédoises avec la légende qui inspira The Virgin Spring de Ingmar Bergman à son apogée dans les années 70-80, puis aux films de viol-et-vengeance d’aujourd’hui. Appuyé de nombreux extraits de films rares et d’un visionnement de l’essentiel Ms. 45 d’Abel Ferrara, le cours examiner l’évolution des films de vengeance féminine, examinant la trajectoire tragique de ses personnages, ses conventions narratives ainsi que sa place controversée dans la culture populaire. Instructeur : Kier-la Janisse

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), pharmacy selling viagra in israel and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).