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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Case of Two Nadias: Eroticizing the Eastern-European Female Body in Popular Euro-American Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Case of Two Nadias: Eroticizing the Eastern-European Female Body in Popular Euro-American Cinema at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Erotic in Context

ISBN

978-1-84888-025-2

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

59 - 67

Počet stran knihy

182

Název nakladatele

Inter-Disciplinary Press

Místo vydání

Oxford

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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