In "Evergreen," shot mostly in Mineola, Rolando Sanchez, the writer and director, tells a fictional story of spousal abuse in just 20 minutes, including flashbacks to the abusing husband's abysmal childhood.
Phil Harrison Part two of Jack Thorne's drama detailing the downfall of a fictional household name following abuse allegations.
And Ms. James is certainly no Marquis de Sade, the 18th-century French aristocrat whose fictional fantasies about sexual abuse, torture and murder created the word "sadism".
And James is certainly no Marquis de Sade, the 18th-century French aristocrat whose fictional fantasies about sexual abuse, torture and murder created the word "sadism".
The mid-1990s were the high period of the "recovered memory syndrome" scandals in the US, when therapists would talk patients into retrieving fictional tales of childhood abuse.
Most common are what career bureaucrats call "low performing whistleblowers," unproductive and often contentious employees who report fictional waste, fraud or abuse to protect themselves by hiding behind the Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects federal whistleblowers from discipline or dismissal.
Riggall remembers a moment during the screening of Blue Velvet when an actor playing Frank Booth started abusing his (fictional) girlfriend outside the venue.
In her short story "The Sex Lives of African Girls," published in Granta in 2011, Selasi made something new of the familiar fictional theme of childhood sexual abuse, showing how the complex and violently patriarchal web of relations in one Nigerian household led to a cycle of molestation.
Label Tarantino a cinematic racist and a misogynist who allows his fictional characters to use and abuse the words "n*****" and "bitch" in The Hateful Eight.
In another climactic episode, a fictional DJ struggling with substance abuse issues who I later learn is based on a well-known techno veteran slumped in a chair, slurred on the phone to his daughter, and eventually passed out.
