The line

Streaming video - 2014

A one-night stand far from home goes terribly wrong. A young woman is raped. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she decides to make a film about the relationship between her own experience and the tangle of political, legal, and cultural questions that surround issues of sex and consent. Using a hidden camera, filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman goes head-to-head with the man who assaulted her, recording their conversation in an attempt to move through the trauma of her experience and achieve a better understanding of the sometimes ambiguous line between consent and coercion. The result is a powerful documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence - as well as the complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assa...ult gets framed and understood in the wider culture. Schwartman, as the prismatic main charater, is likeable, while embodying the needs, desires, and inner conflicts common among young, sexually active American women. Completed after being presented in classrooms on dozens of college campuses, The Line is structured to invite and reward students' trust, making them comfortable enough to discuss sex, consent, legal rights, and the politics surrounding gender violence - issues too often deemed embarrassing, shameful, or taboo.

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Subjects
Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Aaron Albano (-), Isaac Mathes, Fernanda Rossi, Marin Sander-Holzman, Nancy Schwartzman
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 24 min.)
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Grade 9+
Higher education.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Isaac Mathes ; editors, Marin Sander Holzman and Nancy Schwartzman ; music, Aaron Albano aka Ming.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).