The East and gender in popular culture the visual discourse of the harem in the modern television series

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10.2991/ismge-19.2019.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender marking of space, visual discourse, harem.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of gender marking of the artistic space of television series in the context of postcolonial theory and feminist criticism. By the material of artistic images of the harem cultural, national and gender features of representation of the East in modern mass cinema are studied. An attempt is made to consider the harem as a gender-marked space, the values of which are disputed by the carriers of the European consciousness. One of the features of the gender marking of the harem is a clear structuring of its space, which is characterized by gender and social stratification. The second feature of gender marking is due to the possibility/impossibility for the characters to observe the space. The possibility of observation is due to the presence of "male gaze", subjectivity and dominion. Concubines of the harem have no identity and are just objects for observation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Olga Popova
AU  - Farhod Ochilov
AU  - Anzhela Danilenko
AU  - Nodir Jadgarov
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The East and gender in popular culture the visual discourse of the harem in the modern television series
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Environment" (ISMGE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 580
SN  - 2352-5398
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