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- Title
Gender Discourse in Eastern European SF Cinema.
- Authors
Mazierska, Ewa; Näripea, Eva
- Abstract
This article contributes to the relatively under-researched field of Eastern European sf cinema of the communist period by looking at gender discourse in two films with post- apocalyptic settings: the Czech The End of August at the Hotel Ozone [Konec srpna v hotelu Ozón, aka Late August at the Hotel Ozone] (1967), directed by Jan Schmidt, and the Polish Sex Mission [Seksmisja] (1984), directed by Juliusz Machulski. While made in somewhat different sociopolitical situations and featuring disparate modes of expression (art house versus popular comedy), both films stand out for representations of problematic gender relations and identities, which seem to question the heteropatriarchal norm. By linking gender discourse with colonial perspective, this study demonstrates that both films in fact use the unbalanced gender situations to denounce the communist colonial rule and to promote the close connection between heteropatriarchy and the nation state.
- Subjects
GENDER in motion pictures; END of August at the Hotel Ozone, The (Film); SEX Mission (Film); SCIENCE fiction films; SCHMIDT, Jan; MACHULSKI, Juliusz; GENDER studies
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p163
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5621/sciefictstud.41.1.0163