Human trafficking in popular culture
Depictions of human trafficking in media dramatize the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery. Human trafficking and its popular conception have been the subject and inspiration for popular culture and media of many kinds.[1][2][3][4][5] Media attention to human trafficking in the United States affects the social framing of the issue and in turn influences legal responses and remedies.[6]
Film depictions of human trafficking have been criticized for sensationalizing "exploitation tropes".[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Hackett, Jon (6 December 2022), "Trafficking on film: a critical survey", Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, Policy Press, pp. 95–112, ISBN 978-1-4473-6366-8, retrieved 16 August 2023
- ^ Plambech, Sine (30 September 2016). "The Art of the Possible: Making films on sex work migration and human trafficking". Anti-Trafficking Review (7): 182–199. doi:10.14197/atr.201217710. ISSN 2287-0113.
- ^ Yea, Sallie (2020), Yea, Sallie (ed.), "Girls on Film: Framing Human Trafficking Through Film and the Cinema", Paved with Good Intentions? Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore, Singapore: Springer, pp. 59–86, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3239-5_3, ISBN 978-981-13-3239-5, S2CID 213367293, retrieved 16 August 2023
- ^ Austin, Rachel; Farrell, Amy (26 April 2017), "Human Trafficking and the Media in the United States", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.290, ISBN 978-0-19-026407-9, retrieved 16 August 2023
- ^ Bickford, Donna M. (2 January 2018). "Hell Gate: The Implications of Representations of Human Trafficking in Popular Culture". Journal of Human Trafficking. 4 (1): 96–99. doi:10.1080/23322705.2018.1423453. ISSN 2332-2705. S2CID 158797115.
- ^ Kinney, Edith (2015), Guia, Maria João (ed.), "Victims, Villains, and Valiant Rescuers: Unpacking Sociolegal Constructions of Human Trafficking and Crimmigration in Popular Culture", The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 87–108, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09441-0_7, ISBN 978-3-319-09441-0, retrieved 16 August 2023
- ^ Berlatsky, Noah (10 June 2014). "Hollywood's dangerous obsession with sex trafficking". Salon. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
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