Body Configurations: Gender and Identity Transgressions in Andrzej Wajda’s “Roly Poly”
Robert Dudziński
robert.dudzinski2@uwr.edu.plUniversity of Wrocław (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8387-4314
Abstract
The article discusses Przekładaniec (Roly Poly, 1968) – a television production by Andrzej Wajda, based on the script by Stanisław Lem – in the context of bodily and sexual otherness. The author of the text describes the methods of coding otherness used by the creators, paying attention primarily to the camp style characteristic of the production. Wajda’s camp strategy, based on bodily excess and irony, made it possible to emphasize the performative and ad hoc nature of gender roles, and to denaturalize the concept of gender itself. The article also discusses the figure of the androgyne, which recurs in the movie, and which also deconstructs the idea of gender binary. The study concludes by pointing out how Roly Poly signals the entanglement of the body and gender in various social and cultural relations.
Keywords:
Andrzej Wajda, camp, androgynyReferences
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Authors
Robert Dudzińskirobert.dudzinski2@uwr.edu.pl
University of Wrocław Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8387-4314
PhD; he works at the Department of Theory of Culture and Performing Arts at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wrocław. In 2019, he defended his doctorate on Polish popular literature of the 1950s. Author of the monograph Produkcje sensacyjno-kryminalne Telewizji Polskiej 1965-1989. Konwencje – motywy – konteksty [Action and Crime Story Productions by the State Broadcaster Telewizja Polska in 1965-1989: Conventions – Motives – Contexts] (2018); co-author of Leksykon (mniej znanych) filmów wampirycznych [The Lexicon of (Lesser Known) Vampire Films] (2018). His research interests include history of Polish popular literature, history of Polish film, history and theory of genre cinema.
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