Transforming the Predator: Representations of the Child Sexual Abuser in 21st Century American Visual Media
Description:
This thesis examines the ways American visual media -television and
mainstream/independent cinema- has presented the narrative of child sexual abuse since the beginning of the 21st century. Due to the rise of the counterculture movement and the sexual revolution of the 1960s, a discourse for talking about child sexuality was created. By providing an opportunity to discuss children and sex, for the first time cultural products could deal overtly with child sexual abuse, rather than connotativel…
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Date:
August 2009
Creator:
Jay, Samuel M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries