Artystyczne i filmowe obrazy współczesności Europy Wschodniej w perspektywie genderowej
Artistic and Film Images of Contemporary Eastern Europe from the Gender Perspective

Summary/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.

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