The brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) on a bus in New Delhi became worldwide news in 2012. Widely known as the Nirbhaya rape incident, it was a landmark case that led the Indian government to amend existing criminal laws on sexual violence and rape. The rape also came to transform the media landscape into a space of social activism. Despite that popular cultural representations of the incident have been critiqued for appropriating rape myths. Through a thematic analysis of the BBC documentary, India's Daughter (2015), and the Netflix series, Delhi Crime (2019), the paper examines the ways in which popular culture sustains and furthers rape culture. By interrogating the thematic-cum-visual discourse of these texts, this paper explores the ideological and sexual tropes to understand the cultural configuration of rape and rape victims/survivors. The study finds the ongoing discourse centering rape in popular culture to be a reiteration of the patriarchal norms prevalent in Indian society.

Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) 在新德里的一辆公共汽车上遭到残酷轮奸，在 2012 年成为全球新闻。被广泛称为 Nirbhaya 强奸事件，这是一个具有里程碑意义的案件，促使印度政府修改现有的关于性暴力和强奸的刑法. 强奸也将媒体景观转变为社会活动的空间。尽管该事件的流行文化表现因盗用强奸神话而受到批评。通过对 BBC 纪录片《印度的女儿》（2015 年）和 Netflix 连续剧《德里犯罪》（2019 年）的主题分析，本文探讨了流行文化是如何维持和促进强奸文化的。通过询问这些文本的主题和视觉话语，本文探讨了意识形态和性比喻，以了解强奸和强奸受害者/幸存者的文化结构。该研究发现，流行文化中以强奸为中心的持续话语是对印度社会普遍存在的父权制规范的重申。