Original scientific paper
PERFORMATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF GENDER: Subversion of Identity in Želimir Žilnik’s movie Marble Ass
Ivan Živić
Abstract
This paper uses the concept of gender performativity, articulated by a contemporary American feminist author Judith Butler, as a methodological tool for the analysis of Želimir Žilnik’s movie Marble Ass. A motion picture is seen here as a text which successfully
delineates values and cultural attitudes of the society in which it was created. The goal of the paper is to try to apply a contemporary theory of subject formation to the concrete examples shown in that movie, and to examine the possibilities offered by the concept of gender performativity.
Keywords
performativity; sex; gender; body; identity
Hrčak ID:
3427
URI
Publication date:
15.11.2004.
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