ТРИ ФУНКЦИИ НА БАЛКАНСКАТА МАШКОСТ
THREE FUNCTIONS OF THE BALKAN MASCULINITY

Summary/Abstract: The study ìThree Functions of the Balkan Masculinityõ by Jasna Koteska investigates into the notorious concept of the Balkan masculinity and its status in the post-war 21st century Balkans. The study offers a complex reading of the intersection between the concepts of Balkanism, masculinity and their media representations, via a detailed readings of the Serbian film "Parade" (2011) and partly of the Macedonian film "Punk is Not Dead" (2011) in their multiple textual, gender, national and cultural dimensions. The text distillates three main characteristics of the concept of the Balkan masculinity as represented in the art products from the 21st century post-war Balkans: (1) avoiding the social responsibility, (2) censorship of homosexuality, and (3) a tight concept of a (male) brotherhood. All of the three detected qualities are elaborated with different examples from few art practices: film, literature, and media. The text is using an interdisciplinary approach in interpreting the complex phenomena of the Balkan masculinity, with researching methods from several related disciplines: film studies, literary criticism, gender studies, nationalism studies, theoretical psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

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