Screening Sexual Violence: Silence Breaking and Performance Activism Post #MeToo

Project Details

Academic description

Sexual violence is an urgent global health and human rights issue with serious social and economic implications for cultures, communities and countries. Disproportionately affecting women and girls, sexual violence is vastly underreported, its victims and survivors silenced by stigma, prevailing myths, systemic and structural inequalities. This ambitious interdisciplinary research project provides comprehensive analysis of current ways sexual violence is represented on screen, assessing the role and activistic potential of film and television in shaping public understanding. A distinctive aspect of the project is the analysis of 80 short films from six countries I have unique access to and original interviews with filmmakers. The project will result in a monograph and varied public engagement programme and resources, including workshops, online film repository, parent/teacher screening materials, and filmmaker guidelines, to connect and inform local, national and international community and educational groups and create a wider collaborative network to eradicate violence against women.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/01/2431/12/24

Funding

  • British Academy

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

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