E10 Promising Young Woman

Episode Content Warning: Discussion of sexual assault, violence against women, and suicide. 

For our 10th episode, we dive into Emerald Fennell's Oscar Award winning revenge-thriller Promising Young Woman. The conversation takes a turn toward the academic as we think on consent, unpack the curious nature of rape-revenge films, and sort through our complicated reactions to this thought provoking film. 

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Additional Show Notes:

For more information about RAINN, please visit https://www.rainn.org/. Their confidential sexual assault hotline is available 24/7 @ 1.800.656.HOPE (4673) and online at https://hotline.rainn.org/online.

On Baudrillard and 3rd Order Simulacra - https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudrillardsimulation.html & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

Claire Henry's Revisionist Rape-Revenge

Aiyana Altrows' "Rape Scripts and Rape Spaces: Constructions of Female Bodies in Adolescent Fiction"