Rape, Popular Culture, and Nirbhaya: A Study of India's Daughter and Delhi Crime

IF 0.9 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Communication Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI:10.1177/01968599221102527

B. Rajan, Devaleena Kundu, Sahana Sarkar

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Abstract

The brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) on a bus in New Delhi became worldwide news in 2012. Widely known as the Nirbhaya rape incident, it was a landmark case that led the Indian government to amend existing criminal laws on sexual violence and rape. The rape also came to transform the media landscape into a space of social activism. Despite that popular cultural representations of the incident have been critiqued for appropriating rape myths. Through a thematic analysis of the BBC documentary, India's Daughter (2015), and the Netflix series, Delhi Crime (2019), the paper examines the ways in which popular culture sustains and furthers rape culture. By interrogating the thematic-cum-visual discourse of these texts, this paper explores the ideological and sexual tropes to understand the cultural configuration of rape and rape victims/survivors. The study finds the ongoing discourse centering rape in popular culture to be a reiteration of the patriarchal norms prevalent in Indian society.

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强奸、流行文化和Nirbhaya:印度女儿和德里犯罪研究

2012年，乔蒂·辛格（Nirbhaya饰）在新德里的一辆公交车上遭到残忍轮奸，成为全球新闻。这起案件被广泛称为Nirbhaya强奸案，是一个里程碑式的案件，导致印度政府修改了有关性暴力和强奸的现行刑法。强奸案也将媒体景观转变为一个社会激进主义的空间。尽管如此，对这一事件的流行文化表述仍因盗用强奸神话而受到批评。通过对英国广播公司纪录片《印度的女儿》（2015年）和网飞电视剧《德里犯罪》（2019年）的主题分析，本文探讨了流行文化支撑和推动强奸文化的方式。通过对这些文本的主题和视觉话语的质疑，本文探讨了理解强奸和强奸受害者/幸存者文化配置的意识形态和性修辞。研究发现，流行文化中以强奸为中心的持续话语是对印度社会普遍存在的父权规范的重申。

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Journal of Communication Inquiry COMMUNICATION-

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2.90

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an understanding of these phenomena cannot arise soley out of a narrowly focused analysis. Rather, the approaches emphasize philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The Journal of Communication Inquiry is a forum for such investigations.