Gender and Apocalypse in Eastern European Cinema
Gender and Apocalypse in Eastern European Cinema
The communist-era films The End of August at the Hotel Ozone, Daisies, and Sexmission directly link apocalyptic images with the notion of gender. The first two suggest that the communist regimes of Eastern Europe had destroyed gender by de-feminizing women; in the later Sexmission “proper” gender roles and identity are returned. This article places these films not only in the context of western feminist film theory but also looks at Eastern European reactions to questions of gender both before and immediately after the fall of communism. The films reflect prevailing attitudes about politics and gender in countries such as Czechoslovakia and Poland, which can differ somewhat from opinions about gender in regions that did not experience communism.
Keywords: apocalypse, communism and cinema, Czech film, Daisies, The End of August at the Hotel Ozone, feminist film theory, gender, Polish film, Sexmission
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