Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane is a 1995 Italian adult film directed by Joe D'Amato (under the pseudonym Luca Damiano) and starring Rocco Siffredi as the "Ape Man" and Rosa Caracciolo
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Unsurprisingly, Tarzan x Shame of Jane has been condemned by both conservative moralists (for nudity and “bestial undertones”) and postcolonial critics (for perpetuating the myth of the noble savage). The latter argue that the film, despite its sympathetic Jane, still exoticizes African landscapes as a backdrop for white psychodrama. Tarzan himself remains a blank projection—muscular, silent, and racially ambiguous in a way that evades the actual politics of colonialism. The “shame,” these critics note, is never interrogated as a product of white femininity alone; the film ignores the very real historical shame of colonial violence. tarzan x shame of jane full movi top