The image of a rebel woman in the Czechoslovak New Wave based on the Daises by Věra Chytilová Cover Image

Obraz kobiety-buntowniczki czechosłowackiej Nowej Fali na podstawie Stokrotek Věry Chytilovej
The image of a rebel woman in the Czechoslovak New Wave based on the Daises by Věra Chytilová

Author(s): KAROLINA ZIEMKA
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: women’s cinema; feminism; woman in the movie;

Summary/Abstract: Daises by Věra Chytilová is one of the most important films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, from which the image of a rebellious female figure emerges. Due to its complex nature, aesthetic and semantic diversity, this surreal image can be interpreted on many levels, often extremely different. It is both a criticism of consumerism and nihilism, and a feminist manifesto in the Central and Eastern European edition. The communism that dominated this area tended to institutionalize the inequalities between women and men. Due to the complexity of the problem and the multitude of possible interpretations, the film analysis is based on various methodologies oscillating between feminist criticism and Laura Mulvey’s reflections on the categories of corporeality, gender, and the masculinization of the viewer in narrative cinema.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 65-70
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish