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Sexuality and Its Manifestation in Post-Yugoslav Cinematography

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title: "Sexuality and Its Manifestation in Post-Yugoslav Cinematography"

candidate: "Dejmi Hadrovic MA"

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study_program: "Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)"

abstract: "Đejmi Hadrović is a media artist working in photography, video, installation and performance. Đejmi was nominated for the YVAA Young Visual Artist Award in Slovenia in 2020 and 2018. She has won several international awards and her work is been exhibited worldwide. Đejmi explores issues related to feminism, sexuality and gender in the post-Yugoslav space.The discursive framework in which I approach the theory of the representation of sexuality in post-Yugoslav cinema is based on feminist theory, queer and bio/necropolitics. In order to arrive at an analysis of post-Yugoslav sexual identities, which is the main topic of my dissertation, I start from the history of feminism in the West and compare it with the current feminist post-Yugoslav context. In my dissertation I deal with the problem of representation of gendered and queer identities in the field of current post-Yugoslav space, especially in film works. The term sexuality in the title of the dissertation is primarily the subject of research. I question all those forms of sexual behavior and gender identification that cannot be identified with heteronormativity - the traditional patriarchal model of heterosexuality and the distribution of gender roles. Drawing on gender theory, queer theory, and the theory of bio- and necropolitics, I address the problem of the representation of the gendered body and queer bodies in films of the 1990s in the context of ten selected films. In the third part, I address the indefinable or the undefined that has been wrongly defined. In this case, it is the territory of the Balkan(s). Then I extrapolate the directions of cinema and define what cinema is in a socio-political context. The last part focuses on the analysis reflected in cinematic narratives from the region.Keywords: sexuality, feminism, queer, biopolitics, necropolitics, post-Yugoslavia."

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