CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Stojanovska, Marija |
|---|---|
| Title | SCREENING MACEDONIAN IN-BETWEENNESS: TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA AND ANETA LESHNIKOVSKA |
| Summary | There is a long tradition of constructing a discourse on the Balkans that implies an essentializied image of the region as a place of perpetual turmoil and patriarchal relations. This study focuses on the cinematic representations of Macedonia, being part of the Balkans, and discusses the alternative narrative strategies used in Balkan cinema that may undermine the dichotomy West/the Balkans and the possibility of the gazed (the Balkan people) to cast back the gaze. The thesis contains an analysis of two films by female authors: I am from Titov Veles by Teona Strugar Mitevska and Does It Hurt? – the First Balkan Dogma by Aneta Leshnikovska. The analysis deals with their representation of Macedonian in-betweenness within the concept of Balkan cinema. More specifically, it discusses écriture feminine and Dogme 95 as film styles that in different ways shift or undermine a generalized image of the Balkans. Furthermore, the analysis is also focused on the gender representations and the construction of female subjectivities on screen. Finally, the concept of transnational exilic cinema is also employed in order to take into account the different perspective that these two female directors have in their representations of the Balkans. |
| Supervisor | Lukic , Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/stojanovska_marija.pdf |
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