Roll Red Roll

Schwartzman, director of the award-winning documentary Roll Red Roll (the rallying cry of Steubenville football fans) brings to [the book] the benefit of historical perspective (Donald Trump's campaign; the #MeToo movement) and her filmmaker's eye, laying out the events and aftermath in exacting detail....This compelling account offers heartbreaking evidence of the pervasive, systemic, and toxic misogyny that thrives in many American communities. --Booklist A scathing examination of American rape culture, promoted and abetted by athletics....A maddening, well-documented account of crime without punishment even as violence against women continues unabated. --Kirkus Reviews Roll Red Roll is a searing account...Schwartzman's sense of outrage fuels the narrative, but never overwhelms it. This tragic cautionary tale deserves a wide audience. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman's deep dive on the Steubenville case is a must-read for anyone interested in the culture that produces sexual assault. --Samhita Mukhopadhyay, co-editor of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America Nancy Schwartzman has given us the gift of an immersive, gripping narrative that thoughtfully explores the cultural rot behind one of the twenty-first century's most notorious cases of sexual violence (so far). Roll Red Roll documents not just a shocking episode of violence and its aftermath but a germinal moment in our recent cultural history, one that pointed the way to #MeToo. This is true crime you'll never have to apologize for loving. --Kate Harding, author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--And What We Can Do About It What Nancy Schwartzman does with Roll Red Roll is not only provide a necessary examination of pressing issues, but a compelling one. This book dives deep into the American political and social landscape to wrestle with issues of power, misogyny, and problems both apparent and disturbingly hidden. By the end, it changes the way you look at the world. It should be widely read and discussed--we'd all be better off for it. --Jared Yates Sexton, author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People Roll Red Roll reads like a riveting true crime story while the reader is being carefully led through a masterful assessment of the root causes of rape culture....A must-read. --Dr. Caroline Heldman, Executive Director of The Representation Project, Chair of Critical Theory & Social Justice, Chair of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at Occidental College