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emilie neuss on 19 Apr 10Johnny Belinda, 1948, John Negulesco, dir. This film is key to my research mostly in part to its date. Many people believe that rape has only recently been shown explicitly in more recent films, however this is a film that invalidates this thought. While Gone with the Wind does deal with rape in film, it does not explicitly mention or show the rape; Johnny Belinda, on the other hand, overtly deals with rape and its repercussions. Also helpful in this movie selection is the ample discourse found in relation to it, from Sarah Projansky. It deals with many topics the other films deal with, but also has differing aspects to consider, in relation to rape in film, such as the consequences of rape and how one copes with them. While it is important to, in a sense, keep a period eye when watching this film, the film too has many still valid points, which I am interested to further develop and question while writing this paper.