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Upending the Crime Story

Angela’s confrontation with her incestuous father and brother is the place where the road story ends in this film. As such the film is framed as a criminal investigation framed within the conventions of an early kind of feminist recovery model from the 1970s. What are these conventions? How does this one woman story work against common cultural representations on TV of women raped, murdered, beaten and victimized as a subplot for criminal investigation stories? If you were Angela would you have made this film differently?

Posted by Katie Bashore on February 20, 2008 02:26 PM |

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