Queering Ethnicity in the First Gay Films From Ex-Yugoslavia

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ID12689449
AutoresKevin Moss (0000-0003-2332-1774, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas352-370
Data de publicação2011-11-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14680777.2011.615618
OpenAlexW2067745356
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas16

Between 2002 and 2005 four of the Yugoslav successor states produced major feature films with lesbian or gay protagonists: Maja Weiss's Guardian of the Frontier (Slovenia, 2002), Dalibor Matanić's Fine Dead Girls (Croatia, 2002), Dragan Marinković's Take a Deep Breath (Serbia, 2004), and Ahmed Imamović's Go West (Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2005). As with other films from Eastern Europe that portray queer characters, all of these films were shot by straight directors, and the queer characters are not representations of real local queer communities, but instead are used as metaphors to address topics the filmmakers find more important, such as ethnicity and national identity. The ethnic hatreds that fueled the wars of the 1990s were mobilized through the heterosexual matrix. In these films anxieties about ethnicity are worked out through plots involving queer sexuality, though they work differently for male and female couples: female bodies can be conventionally objectified by the heterosexual male gaze, while male couples become the focus for anxieties about male rape

Ethnic group · Frontier · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Political science · Queer · Sexual identity · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law