From Bev Thomas’ new novel The Family Retreat to Netflix’s highly-acclaimed Maid, a wave of books, TV shows and films are transforming the way stories of violence against women are told. Marisa Bate asks how we keep up the momentum.
starring Joanne Froggatt, have been widely lauded for accurate portrayals of coercive control and domestic abuse. Interesting, too, is that most of these examples started their lives as books written by women. Guardian film criticdoesn’t find this surprising, noting the limitations of even attempting to tell the story of abuse through visual drama. “It’s very difficult to dramatise someone scaring the living shit out of someone else just by the way they stare at them,” she tells me.
starring Carey Mulligan. “That is entirely about the devastation that rape can leave behind for women – on an entire community of people as well as the woman directly affected in the moment,” she says., the French rape-revenge movie. “It was sensationalistic, of course,” she says, referring to its blood-soaked, hyper-stylised action movie aesthetic. “But with a female director at the helm it wasn’t sensationalistic in the way it showed the attack itself.
If there has been a move to get things ‘right’, there’s also a bigger response when people get things ‘wrong’. O’Hara points to the backlash against Sansa’s rape in, widely criticised for being unnecessary, and Baker nods to this year’s Love Island. The show received more than 5,000 Ofcom complaints about misogynistic behaviour. Women’s Aid released a damning statement, and ITV bosses said they would consult with the organisation.
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