Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema
This paper is part of an ongoing research project that aims at identifying types of masculinities in Romanian socialist cinema, by using gender studies and other contributions on the topic of masculinity in order to provide a sociological reading of Romanian films made during the communist regime. I...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
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| description | This paper is part of an ongoing research project that aims at identifying types of masculinities in Romanian socialist cinema, by using gender studies and other contributions on the topic of masculinity in order to provide a sociological reading of Romanian films made during the communist regime. I will look at the way in which Western understandings of masculinity have been transferred to Eastern European categories of masculinity in cinema and I will establish a critical framework for my analysis, with an introduction to studies on masculinity, and expand on elements of sociological and psychoanalytical works, namely major contributions from Connell (1987), Segal (2007) and Horrocks (1994, 1995). Two defining concepts in masculinity studies are hegemonic masculinity (Connell 1987) and homosociality (Bird, 1996), theories which will constitute the basis for my case studies in order to see if male characters in Romanian socialist cinema fit into this categorization. The last part of this paper will be an analysis of three films, Reenactment (Reconstituirea, Lucian Pintilie, 1968), 100 Lei (100 de lei, Mircea Săucan, 1973) and At the End of the Line (La capătul liniei, Dinu Tănase), in which the male characters exist outside society, they cannot conform to what is being required of them as socialist subjects. The purpose is to see how gender performativity plays a role in the relationship between men, with a focus on violence and how it is connected to a search for a father figure and male friendships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ea77c870269949aa9eca29b4f1fdcd2a2023-06-19T06:25:57ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory2457-88272022-07-018118820210.24193/mjcst.2022.13.11Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist CinemaMădălina Pojoga0Babeș-Bolyai UniversityThis paper is part of an ongoing research project that aims at identifying types of masculinities in Romanian socialist cinema, by using gender studies and other contributions on the topic of masculinity in order to provide a sociological reading of Romanian films made during the communist regime. I will look at the way in which Western understandings of masculinity have been transferred to Eastern European categories of masculinity in cinema and I will establish a critical framework for my analysis, with an introduction to studies on masculinity, and expand on elements of sociological and psychoanalytical works, namely major contributions from Connell (1987), Segal (2007) and Horrocks (1994, 1995). Two defining concepts in masculinity studies are hegemonic masculinity (Connell 1987) and homosociality (Bird, 1996), theories which will constitute the basis for my case studies in order to see if male characters in Romanian socialist cinema fit into this categorization. The last part of this paper will be an analysis of three films, Reenactment (Reconstituirea, Lucian Pintilie, 1968), 100 Lei (100 de lei, Mircea Săucan, 1973) and At the End of the Line (La capătul liniei, Dinu Tănase), in which the male characters exist outside society, they cannot conform to what is being required of them as socialist subjects. The purpose is to see how gender performativity plays a role in the relationship between men, with a focus on violence and how it is connected to a search for a father figure and male friendships.https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/231/misfits-and-troubled-men-masculinity-and-violence-in-romanian-socialist-cinemagender studiesromanian cinemamasculinitiessocialist cinemahegemonic masculinity |
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| title | Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema |
| title_full | Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema |
| title_fullStr | Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema |
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| title_short | Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema |
| title_sort | misfits and troubled men masculinity and violence in romanian socialist cinema |
| topic | gender studies romanian cinema masculinities socialist cinema hegemonic masculinity |
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