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Author
Publisher
T. Dunne
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Documents the full story behind the allegations of rape against the Duke lacrosse team, arguing that law-enforcement officials, a campaigning prosecutor, liberally biased journalists, and others were responsible for scapegoating the defendants.
65) After that night
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by...
66) Straw dogs
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A young American couple come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment until they are forced to respond.
67) Something wild
Series
Criterion collection volume 850
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma. A college student attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic whose kindness unfortunately takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York's Actors Studio, which transformed American...
68) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1958.
Language
English
Description
Southern story of cruelty and perversion, about a young college girl who falls under the spell of a gangster bootlegger.
70) Madness
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy (Joe Dallesandro: Andy Warhol's superstar) makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot. But before he can retrieve his stash a vehicle pull up with the womanizing Sergio who has travelled up to his weekend retreat with his trusting wife Liliana and her flirty sister Paola. Joe pretends to torment...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, he shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"From the makers of 'The Invisible War' comes a startling expose of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together vérité footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue--despite incredible pushback, harassment and traumatic aftermath--both their education and...
73) Uneasy fortunes
Author
Publisher
Sweetwater Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Deep in debt, Pete's father dies and leaves him with nothing but a tarnished reputation and a lifetime of abuse. Determined to work off the debts, he promises to serve five years of labor in exchange for payment in full of his father's obligations.
74) Really really
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today's youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about "Generation Me," it's every man for himself."--The publisher.
75) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the legal case in which nine African American men were falsely accused of rape, the trials and appeals thereafter, and the historical background regarding the lack of civil and legal rights for African Americans.
Publisher
TLA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
"The lives of two teen girls are shattered after one experiences a violent attack in this poignant drama based on a true story. Growing up poor in Mexico City, rebellious Yessica (Ximena Ayala) and innocent Miriam (Nancy Gutiérrez) are best friends -- a friendship Yessica takes comfort in after she's raped in a setup arranged by her stepbrother. But as Yessica leans heavily on Miriam, her dependence jeopardizes her naive friend's once stable life."--DVD.com....
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome blueblood. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deep -- a very violent and public trauma from her past that has left her constantly trying to reinvent herself. And only she knows how far she would go to keep...
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