Introduction : why rape? / Dominique Russell -- Canonical works and auteurs: Screen/memory : rape and its alibis in Last year at Marienbad / Lynn A. Higgins ; The fault lines of vision : Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema ; Buñuel : storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell -- Materiality and metaphor : rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald ; Sins of permission : the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise Von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson ; Rough awakenings : unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa -- English-language independent cinemas: Jane Campion's women's films : art cinema and the postfeminist rape narrative / Shelley Cobb ; Boys don't get raped / Ann J. Cahill ; "If it was a rape, then why would she be a whore?" : rape in Todd Solondz' films / Michelle E. Moore -- Case study : Cinéma brut and the new French extremists: "Typically French"? : mediating screened rape to British audiences / Martin Barker ; On watching and turning away : Ono's Rape, cinéma direct aesthetics and the genealogy of cinéma brut / Scott MacKenzie ; Uncanny horrors : male rape in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard ; Sexual trauma and jouissance in Baise-moi / Joanna Bourke ; Shame and the sisters : Catherine Breillat's À ma soeur! (Fat Girl) / Tanya Horeck
