ABSTRACT This article documents governmental response to ‘sexually violent’ material in Australia between 1983 to 1995 through the lens of media classification. Three major changes will be discussed that span the introduction of two new classification categories: the X category for sexually explicit materials (SEMs) in 1983, the MA15+ category for Mature Adults over 15 in 1993, and the establishment of a National Classification Scheme (NCS) in 1995. These events concern three different genres and mediums, two as they emerged in Australian homes: sexually explicit video, mainstream thriller films for public exhibition, and ‘violent’ video games. This article tracks how ‘sexual violence’ emerged within a field of discourse that incorporates institutions, technologies, morals, and political and commercial interests. Drawing upon the classification treatment and textual analysis of mainstream films from the early 1990s, The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) and Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991), this article further documents how classification shifted from acting on the principle of child protection, to address young people as the future instigators of gendered violence, a policy discourse which would prove salient in a context anxious of new media and media change.

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对于成熟观众：1983 年至 1995 年的澳大利亚媒体分类和银幕上的性暴力

摘要 本文从媒体分类的角度记录了 1983 年至 1995 年间澳大利亚政府对“性暴力”材料的反应。将讨论跨越引入两个新分类类别的三个主要变化：1983 年针对色情材料 (SEM) 的 X 类别、1993 年针对 15 岁以上成人的 MA15+ 类别以及国家分类方案 (NCS) 的建立) 于 1995 年。这些事件涉及三种不同的流派和媒介，其中两种是在澳大利亚家庭中出现的：色情视频、公开放映的主流惊悚片和“暴力”视频游戏。这篇文章追踪了“性暴力”是如何在一个包含制度、技术、道德以及政治和商业利益的话语领域中出现的。