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Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent

Name: Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent
Director: Billy Corben
Released: 2001
Duration: 90 min

Representation Score

4.5/10

Fair

2001

Director

Billy Corben

Runtime

90 minutes

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Billy Corben’s documentary provides a sharp interrogation of gendered power dynamics and institutional negligence. By utilizing raw footage to challenge official accounts from law enforcement and universities, the film shifts the focus toward individual vulnerability within systemic failures. The work excels in its deconstruction of patriarchal structures and its critique of how Western institutions fail to protect individual rights. It moves beyond simple reporting to offer a structural analysis of social hierarchies. However, the film's impact is limited by a lack of visible representation regarding race, ethnicity, and LGBTQ+ identities. The narrative remains focused on the specific mechanics of consent within a collegiate, straight-centered context.

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Category Breakdown

Does Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film focuses on power structures that assume everyone is straight and does not explicitly center or detail LGBTQ+ identities within the narrative.

How does Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent portray gender?

Excellent

The documentary disrupts traditional hierarchies by centering women's ability to drive the story and critiquing male-dominated fraternity spaces. It challenges the moral decision-making of patriarchal structures through its investigation of consent.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent?

Minimal

There is insufficient information to determine the racial or ethnic composition of the subjects. No specific patterns of racial representation are identified.

How does Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The narrative engages critically with Western institutions, such as the legal system and university administrations. It prioritizes systemic critique over the preservation of traditional social orders.

Does Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent include disability representation?

Minimal

The film does not feature physical disability, mental health conditions, or neurodivergence as central narrative elements or primary character arcs.

Present on Screen

Strongly challenges traditional gender hierarchies and patriarchal authority.
Provides a critical deconstruction of institutional and legal failures.
Centers the discourse on women's ability to drive the story and the complexities of sexual consent.

Limited or Absent

Lacks visible representation or engagement with LGBTQ+ identities.
Provides no information regarding racial or ethnic diversity within the subjects.
Does not address disability or neurodivergence as part of the social critique.

Official Synopsis

A documentary about the circumstances during a party at a University of Florida fraternity that led up to what may or may not have been a rape. Interspersed with actual footage shot by the fraternity brothers on the night of the incident, including the sexual acts. This video led to the police not pressing charges and the involvement of NOW, and eventually led to the fraternity getting kicked off campus.

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