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Human as animal : the films of Dušan Makavejev and Shohei Imamura
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Author
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Abstract
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| The aim of this paper is to investigate auteur opuses of directors Shohei Imamura and Dušan Makavejev, namely how they represented femininities and masculinities, their sexualities, and the roles of women and men in changing societies. The two directors had several traits in common: both were impacted by the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa; both created fiction films as well as documentary films, and occasionally hybrids of both genres; both directors expressed political critique in their films, and challenged social and sexual taboos; both had quirky instances in their films, i.e. women breastfeeding adult men (Imamura in Insect Woman and Makavejev in Sweet Movie); and both directors had a caustic sense of humour that imbued their films. Another prominent characteristic of Imamura’s and Makavejev’s work is that throughout their oeuvres there is a persistent recurrence of (wo) man-as-an-animal metaphor. More particularly, some of their films take a cinematic zoomorphic stance by juxtaposing the animal and the human, and by blurring the human-animal boundary. This paper focuses on the zoomorphic representations via close reading of their films. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Зборник радова Факултета драмских уметности
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Publication
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2023
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DOI
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10.18485/FDU_ZR.2023.43.2
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Volume/pages
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2023
:43
(2023)
, p. 25-42
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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