Writer/producer/editor, Sut Jhally ; associate producer, Robert Dinozzi ; camera, Paul Yglesius, Robert Dinozzi, Jeffrey Graham ; music, Joe Bartone.
Event
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 1994.
Summary
How did date rape shift from a "shockingly frequentoutrage," as Newsweek once called it, to a controversy over "crying rape," as New York Magazine later labeled it? Academy award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) guides us through complicated intersections of gender, sex, power and violence, while Susan Faludi, bell hooks, and others expose this shift as a classic case of media "backlash" against women's autonomy.