Artistic and Film Images of Contemporary Eastern Europe from Gender Perspective

Małgorzata Radkiewicz

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Abstract

In 2010 an international art exhibition Gender Check! was held, which showed contemporary Eastern Europe from the perspective of artistic endeavours guided by the question of gender. Reviewing the aims of the exhibition permits the author to show the possibilities given by the introduction of the notion of gender into the analysis of art and cinema. Especially after 1989 thought related to gender became in post-communist countries a way of redefining the identity of the transformation era. Interdisciplinary, comparative research on gender was carried out within the field of sociology, history, but also art, film and media studies, blurring the lines between the disciplines and widening the field of analysis and interpretation. Within thought related to the cinema of the East and Central Europe it was important insofar, as the question of gender refreshed research apparatus. It permitted to move beyond representational schemes of the identity of the entire region, the way it is shaped, and the reading of related meaning.


Keywords:

Eastern Europe, gender, identity

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Published
2014-03-31

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Radkiewicz, M. (2014) “Artistic and Film Images of Contemporary Eastern Europe from Gender Perspective”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (85), pp. 147–152. doi: 10.36744/kf.2464.

Authors

Małgorzata Radkiewicz 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland

Dr hab., filmoznawczyni, adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizual­nych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Zajmuje się problematyką tożsamości kulturowej oraz tożsa­mości płci we współczesnym kinie i sztukach wi­zualnych. Prowadzi badania nad twórczością kobiet w kinie, fotografii i sztuce. Opublikowała m.in.: W poszukiwaniu sposobu ekspresji. O fil­mach Jane Campion i Sally Potter (2001), Derek Jarman. Portret indywidualisty (2003), „Młode wilki” polskiego kina. Kategoria gender a debiuty lat 90. (2006), „Władczynie spojrzenia”. Teoria filmu a praktyka reżyserek i artystek (2010), Ob­licza kina queer (2014).



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