www.screeningsexualviolence.com
Screening Sexual Violence is a research project supported by the British Academy.
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 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 and original interviews with filmmakers.
The project will result in a monograph and varied public engagement programme, including educational film resource 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 and girls.
Project Lead: Dr Donna Peberdy, Associate Professor of Performance, Sex and Gender, Southampton Solent University, UK.
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Interested in finding out more about the Screening Sexual Violence project or want information on how you might get involved?
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Screening Sexual Violence is a research project funded through the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Scheme.
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LATEST POSTS
- Why Screening Sexual Violence?
What role do film and television have in how we understand and make sense of sexual violence? How do film and television contribute to or challenge prevailing myths around sexual violence? What does it mean to screen sexual violence? This week, I had the opportunity to attend an event that sums up for me why screening sexual violence matters. - Screening Sexual Violence British Academy Fellowship Project
This month sees the start of the British Academy research project Screening Sexual Violence, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The project – led by Donna Peberdy at Solent University Southampton – was one of 43 Mid-Career Fellowships awarded in 2023 to support outstanding SHAPE researchers.
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