The Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence, and Popular Culture

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge

PART 1

Conducive Contexts

1. The Body Politic / The Body National. Constructions of nation and gendered violence in Hungarian popular discourses

Júlia Havas

2. Children, complicity and consent: contemporary French memoirs and #MeToo  

Emma Flynn

3. “In the name of love”: mediating militarised masculinities in times of war 

Polly Withers

4. Media culture, gender violence and feminist politics in China

Sara Liao

5. Dispatches from the UK gender wars

Finn Mackay

6. Where are the Women Talking? On rape, history and the limits of therapeutic media 

Kathryn Claire Higgins

7. Mediated misogynoir:  a framework for recognising gender-based violence against Black women and girls

Kalima Young

8. Deepfake pornography and the exploitation of everyday digital life

Graham Meikle

9. Rape pornography

Fiona Vera-Gray and Clare McGlynn

10. Online anti-press attacks and the double precarity of South Korean female journalists

Jane Yeahin Pyo

11. Denmark’s film, television and theatre sector after #MeToo 

Kenneth Reinicke

12. “Rape is for cowards”: Marilyn Manson, ironic sexism and the “abuser-persona”

Amy Beddows

13. “Wake up in the morning like, fuck P Diddy”: Gender based violence in the popular music industries

Bianca Fileborn and Catherine Strong

14.  Stand-up comedy, gender inequality and sexual violence

Ellie Tomsett

15. Shooting scenes of sexual violence: the role of intimacy coordination in the UK screen industries

Susan Berridge and Tanya Horeck

16. Following the money: giving an account of sexual violence and celebrity culture

Sabrina Moro

17. Survivor-authors and the published book: the challenges of collaborating with publishers and transforming personal trauma for the cultural marketplace 

Winnie M Li

18. “Is this a case of crazy wokery I see before me?”: trigger warnings, popular culture, higher culture and gender-based violence

Karen Boyle and Melody House

PART 2

Representations

Representations: Introduction to Part 2

Susan Berridge and Karen Boyle

19. Gender and violence in video games

Stephanie Rennick and Seán G. Roberts

20. Laughing at male rape: men’s prison sexual victimisation in film and television

Victoria M. Nagy

21. Women who kill or don’t in women’s cinema

Cristelle Maury and David Roche

22. Taking a beating: historicising the US action heroine as “punchbag”

Lisa Purse

23. Truth, reparations and justice in the #MeToo novel

Robin E. Field

24. Audio-visual representation of gender-based violence on German television. A content analytical approach for researching and debating the issue

Christine Linke and Ruth Kasdorf

25. Criminal stories, gendered realities: gender-based violence in Italian TV dramas

Maria Elena D’Amelio and Valentina Re

26. Domestic abuse through the Brazilian telenovela gaze

Lorena Caminhas

27. Drawing the binary. Domestic abuse against women and cisnormativity in institutional graphic brochures in Brazil

Nicoletta Mandolini

28. Representations of sexual violence in the #MeToo era: the case of the Quebec series M’entends-tu?

Amélie Cousineau

29. Dissecting rape culture in Sambre (2023)

Dominique Carlini Versini

30. Skemerdans: reinforcing colonial mores of women's modesty through surveillance and violence in South African noir television

Tina-Louise Smith and Alexia Smit

31. African girl soldiers and the anti-war film

Norita Mdege

32. Yo soy santera. Negotiations of gender and epistemic violence in Netflix’s Diablero (2018-2020)

Valeria Villegas Lindvall

PART 3

Rereading, Rewriting, Reclaiming, Resisting

Rereading, rewriting, reclaiming, resisting: Introduction to Part 3

Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge

33. “The feminist case for Jordan Peterson”: sexual violence, reactionary feminism and the online mirror-world 

Jilly Boyce Kay

34.  Russian Vibe? Geopolitics of race, gender and sexuality and the affective remediations of Soviet anti-racism in a wartime drill

Dinara Yangeldina

35. Aftercare: redressing Silence’s violence

Cáel M. Keegan

36. “The rage you must feel as you choke on your own sorrow: ambivalence and bidirectional queer intimate partner violence in Interview with the Vampire (AMC, 2022-present)

Darren Elliott-Smith

37. “You’re sick, son”: how can comedy studies help us understand cultural discourses of child sexual abuse?

Bethany Rose Lamont

38. Through the lens of survival: violence against women in Portuguese contemporary non-mainstream films

Rita Alcaire

39. Experiences “playing” and illustrating The Bingo of Fear

Natalia Stengel

40. Merging the online and offline: public art responses to sexual violence in the digital age

Frankie Morgan

41. Photography and sexual violence: Laia Abril’s On Rape 

Camila Cavalcante

42. “The personal is structural”: videographic analysis of cultures of abuse in TV series after #MeToo

Catherine Fowler

43. Double Takes: on set violation and the gender politics of film production labour

Sarah Atkinson

44. “We just have to burn it all down”:  the Drama Queens podcast as a space for reflection and resistance

Kristina Brüning

45.  Survivor led podcasts: building survivor expertise and community

Tanya Serisier

46.  Learning to listen: MeToo, the Adult Survivors Act and a hearing for survivors

Leigh Gilmore

PART 4

Audiences

Audiences: Introduction to Part 4

Susan Berridge and Karen Boyle

47. Misogyny in mainstream pornography: insights from AI-driven discourse analysis

Alessia Tranchese

48. Has women’s equality gone too far? Theorising gender-based violence in Singapore through Reddit

Wi En Ng and Michelle H.S. Ho

49.  Lad rock loyalties: exploring Kasabian fan reactions to Tom Meighan’s act of domestic violence

Jenessa N. Williams

50. Men’s violence as entertainment: textual poaching and audience in the Depp v Heard trial

Melody House

51. “Pleasantly surprised”: investigating audience responses to (unexpected) fictional representations of child sexual abuse: A case study of the film Georgia Rule (2007)

Ailise Bulfin, Caroline Dunne, Aleksandra Milenović, Victoria Pöhls and Giulia Scapin

52. “If you criticise us, you’re just an anti”: analysing contemporary conflicts in online media fandom communities

Rukmini Pande

53. “An offensively bad decision”: violence against Voltron: Legendary Defender’s female and queer audiences

Renee Ann Drouin

54. “Beauty is pain”: internalising, negotiating and resisting suffering in pursuit of the Instagram ideal

Rachel Abreu

55. “So, if you think like, ‘Oh trials are won,’ maybe it would encourage to report things”: legal dramas and viewers’ conversations on sexual violence

Dacia Pajé

56. A study of sexual violence in Tamil films and its reception among Malaysian Indian viewers

Premalatha Karupiah

57. Hope against violence: Chilean LGBTQ+ viewers and the televisual representation of discrimination, prejudice and stigma

Ricardo Ramírez

Biography

Karen Boyle is Professor of Feminist Media Studies and Head of the Department of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. She is the co-editor (with Susan Berridge) of the Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence (2024).

 Susan Berridge is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the Open University, UK. Her current research focuses on gender inequalities in the film and television industries. She is co-editor (with Karen Boyle) of the Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence (2024).