Warren, M orcid.org/0000-0002-9370-0414 (2023) Rape jokes, sexual violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End. The Journal of Religion and Film, 27 (1). 59. ISSN 1092-1311
Abstract
The Book of Revelation is one of the most borrowed-from texts of the New Testament when it comes to popular culture. Although there are dozens of other ancient apocalyptic writings, it is John’s apocalyptic visions that directly inform contemporary ideas of apocalypse. The apocalyptic comedy This Is The End (Dir. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, 2013) not only invokes imagery from Revelation but also adapts portions of the text in its portrayal of the end times. However, it also reproduces and expands upon the use of sexual violence as a means of punishment found in Revelation. This paper will examine the mechanisms of sexual violence in Revelation as they are interpreted in This Is The End. I will argue that in the same way that Revelation imagines itself as challenging the status quo that is the Roman Empire and yet reinforces violence against women as normative, the rape jokes in This Is The End (even ones that purport to invert narratives) prop up a system in which sexual violence is understood as deserved punishment.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number White Rose Consortium White Rose Collaboration Fund |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2021 11:03 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2024 14:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska, Omaha |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.27.01.59 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177827 |
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