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<p>Through positing shame as inherent in women’s sexual development, this article explores the screen representations of sexually abused female survivors/victims by focusing especially on the articulation of their selfhood. It interrogates the representation of rape narratives in the television series <italic>Broadchurch</italic> (Amazon 2017) by focusing primarily on the visual culture and visual texts as social texts. Using an intersectional perspective informed by such disciplines as feminism, film and television studies, body politics, trauma studies, and psychology, it also intends to prepare women to be media critical and question the effects of the heavy penetration of popular culture into their lives. The notion of selfhood developed in this article emphasizes embodiment, agency, conscience, and the inextricable relationship between self and other. (AF)</p>
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Through positing shame as inherent in women’s sexual development, this article explores the screen representations of sexually abused female survivors/victims by focusing especially on the articulation of their selfhood. It interrogates the representation of rape narratives in the television series Broadchurch (Amazon 2017) by focusing primarily on the visual culture and visual texts as social texts. Using an intersectional perspective informed by such disciplines as feminism, film and television studies, body politics, trauma studies, and psychology, it also intends to prepare women to be media critical and question the effects of the heavy penetration of popular culture into their lives. The notion of selfhood developed in this article emphasizes embodiment, agency, conscience, and the inextricable relationship between self and other. (AF)

“Nobody Can Be Vulgar All Alone”: The Power of Shame in <italic>Broadchurch</italic>

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

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“Nobody Can Be Vulgar All Alone”: The Power of Shame in 

Through positing shame as inherent in women’s sexual development, this article explores the screen representations of sexually abused female survivors/victims...

“Nobody Can Be Vulgar All Alone”: The Power of Shame in Broadchurch

Published Online: Jun 28, 2023

Page range: 207 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/11

Keywords
Shame, rape, TV series, the Other, guilt, the female body, being-looked-at

© 2023 Anxhela Filaj, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

“Nobody Can Be Vulgar All Alone”: The Power of Shame in Broadchurch

Published Online: Jun 28, 2023

Page range: 207 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/11

KeywordsShame, rape, TV series, the Other, guilt, the female body, being-looked-at

© 2023 Anxhela Filaj, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Shame, rape, TV series, the Other, guilt, the female body, being-looked-at