NFSA Restores Collection: 'Shame'

Few Australian films of thirty-year vintage resonate so powerfully in the present day, when issues of gender and violence are so much at the forefront of news coverage, as Steve Jodrell's Shame. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas' perceptive and provocative study examines Shame's storytelling and affiliations with both the western and the rape-revenge genres, and deftly contextualises the film as it was received then and as its core matters might be viewed today.

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misogyny, sexism, chauvinism, masculinity, macho, machismo, privilege, gang rape, sexual abuse, apologist, denial, cover-up, sisterhood, collective action, #MeToo, men's right activism, MRA, sexual harassment.