Masculinity and Rape in Spanish Cinema: Representation and Collective Imaginary

Commercial cinema in Spain, as the rest of world, has gone to great lengths describe visually, without any intention protest, each and every one forms violence against women: physical, psychological, financial, social and, lastly, sexual. Beyond insinuating intimidating compliments gazes, sexual is something that excepted scripts, even those famous directors who create powerful female characters. The aim this paper know how Spanish directors, both sexes, represent topic violence, paying attention masculinity To end, a content analysis was performed on twelve films from narrative perspective. In second stage, employing methodological triangulation questionnaire quantitative tool, university students were asked about they perceived scenes these films. results show, side, rape act more represented other hand, lack awareness treatment cinema, well its rejection by young audiences.