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ROLL RED ROLL – Review by Loren King

March 4, 2019March 11, 2019 Loren King 0 Comments documentary, nancy schwartzman, rape culture, roll red roll, steubenville

One might recalls the disturbing news in 2012 of Ohio high school football players who allegedly raped a 16 year old girl at a party, and the rush to blame the victim in a city where high school football and its players are prized. But the documentary Roll Red Roll gives a much more detailed and far more disturbing picture of a culture of toxic masculinity in the city of Stubensville, Ohio where many students, parents, school administrators and coaches were complicit in fostering such a hostile climate for young women.

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ROLL RED ROLL – Review by Jennifer Merin

March 4, 2019March 11, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments Cinema Citizen, documentary, nancy schwartman, rape culture, roll red roll, steubenville

Nancy Schwartzman’s harrowing documentary about the rape of a teenage girl by local high school football players in the ‘middle America’ community of Steubenville, Ohio, reveals the depth to which rape culture permeates our society. We’ve seen far too many other such true stories in documentaries chronicling the rape of girls on campus, of women in the military and in the workplace. It must be stopped. Roll Red Roll calls attention to this cultural crisis and should be mandatory viewing for every teenager, parent and educator in America.