The Case of Two Nadias: Eroticizing the Eastern-European Female Body in Popular Euro-American Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century
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angličtina
Original language name
The Case of Two Nadias: Eroticizing the Eastern-European Female Body in Popular Euro-American Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Original language description
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain a number of films have been produced with a major or minor Eastern-European female character. These characters are often represented in a very stereotypical way, stressing above all their uncontrolled sexuality and erotic potential. Furthermore, their irrationality, animosity and sensuality are emphasized. Similarly to the representation of e.g. black women, the Euro-American discourse uses, while representing Eastern-European women, a number of othering strategies tocreate an exoticist other as an object on the contrast to which the West, disregarding gender, can build its own identity. In this paper the particular processes of the production of the Eastern-European female other in Euro-American cinema will be denounced and further analyzed, using postcolonial theory combined with the insights of feminist film theory. On two film examples of different genres the fact will be demonstrated, how common this phenomenon has been within the Euro-American
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C - Chapter in a specialist book
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AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Erotic in Context
ISBN
978-1-84888-025-2
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
59 - 67
Number of pages of the book
182
Publisher name
Inter-Disciplinary Press
Place of publication
Oxford
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