Film audiences have cheered during on-screen rape scenes, complicating spectatorship ethics.

Evidence

As Tanya Horeck argues, the spectacle of rape or rape scenarios on film involves a number of troubling questions. In at least one screening of The Accused (1988), male audience members applauded during the scene depicting the brutal rape of the victim. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1334

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s question about what the monster lets its makers avoid seeing about themselves — here, spectator complicity in violence.