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12 April 2016

Lost and found: why are we obsessed with stories of young women escaping their kidnappers?

From BBC Three’s Thirteen and the Oscar-winning Room to the The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and 10 Cloverfield Lane, British and American pop culture has been gripped by the kidnap narrative.

By Anna Leszkiewicz

A young woman with long, lank hair appears on a deserted suburban street. She stumbles, and collapses.

A young woman with long, lank hair and no shoes steps outside, tentatively, closing a door behind her. She pauses at the gate onto the suburban street, before breaking into a run.

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