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2006.
45

FROM THE HISTORY OF CROATIAN CINEMA

Forensic feminist in action!

(Nice Dead Girls: why did first Croatian celluloid lesbians have to die?)

In the analysis of the first Croatian film that explicitly features a lesbian relationship, the author of the review shows how Dalibor Matanić with his film Nice Dead Girls exploits lesbians/women for the purpose of social criticism, strengthening (instead of deconstructing) heteropatriarchical mechanisms of Croatian cultural-artistic and socio-political reality. On the other hand, directing attention towards interpretatively crucial function of the narrator and the structure of film narration, the author points to the possibility of subversive reading in which gender, sexual and political stereotypes are revealed as products of individual consciousness of the protagonist, instead of the collective (»objective«) consciousness, that is to say, consciousness of the filmmaker.



Mima Simić

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