Freedom smothered: Gang rape as patriarchal punishment of emancipated women in Yugoslav new film

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dc.contributor.authorVuković, Vesi
dc.contributor.editorMulvey, Jamesen
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-05T13:57:15Z
dc.date.available2023-09-05T13:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates how women, and their roles in changing Yugoslav society, were represented in Yugoslav New Film (1961-1972). Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia legalized gender equality in the wake of the Second World War, but the tentacles of patriarchy, which were difficult to eradicate, still lingered from pre-socialist times. In many movies there is a recurring pattern of sexual violence towards women. One possible interpretation of depicted sexual violation, for example gang rape in contemporary-themed Yugoslav New Films, is as a patriarchal punishment for emancipation of women in terms of education, work, or their sexuality. In order to examine this, the feature-length fictional films: Povratak/The Return (Živojin Pavlović, 1966) and Horoskop/Horoscope (Boro Drašković, 1969), in which the freedom of women’s emancipation was smothered by gang rape, are selected for the case study and analysed. The films are explored through the lens of feminist film theory, via close reading. Besides, the concept of the gaze is applied. Furthermore, I scrutinise whether these representations of rape and their aftermaths condone, or condemn brutality toward female characters, or have rather ambivalent stance toward it.en
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dc.identifier.citationVuković, V. (2023) 'Freedom smothered: Gang rape as patriarchal punishment of emancipated women in Yugoslav new film', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 25, pp. 40-60. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.03
dc.identifier.endpage60
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued25
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage40
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14921
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue25/HTML/ArticleVukovic.html
dc.rights© 2023, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectFemale charactersen
dc.subjectYugoslav new filmen
dc.subjectGang rapeen
dc.subjecteEmancipationen
dc.subjectPunishmenten
dc.titleFreedom smothered: Gang rape as patriarchal punishment of emancipated women in Yugoslav new filmen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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