Most stories about aggression belong either to the `Insider Gothic' or to the `Outsider Gothic' narrative genre, both of which are common in contemporary films. Through these genres, both women and men express and develop ambivalent relationships with aggression: these include fear and resistance, pleasure and condemnation. Within the narratives, though, zones of safety are much narrower for women than for men, and resistance is more private.
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