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Visionary Critique: Gender, Self and Relationship in Rosetta and Two Days, One Night

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dc.creatorKnauss, Stefanie
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-15T11:30:01Z
dc.date.available2023-05-15T11:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne stand out for their complex, multi-dimensional female and male characters whose representation disrupts gender stereotypes in numerous ways, both in how the characters themselves are depicted and how they are shown to relate to other individuals and their social context. In this contribution, I will explore the themes of self, relationship, solidarity, family and work – all of them recurring issues in the films by the Dardennes – using gender as my primary category of analysis, and focusing in particular on the treatment of these themes in Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, FR/BE 1999) and Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, BE/FR/IT 2014). I will argue that whereas Rosetta offers a critique of the damaging effects of the masculinized capitalist system on individuals and their relationships, Two Days, One Night can be understood as a vision of alternative possibilities of solidarity and women’s empowerment and agency even within the persistent context of masculinized capitalism.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.2:2016.2.4
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19439
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/40
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20625
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectVisionary Critiqueen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectSelfen
dc.subjectRelationshipen
dc.subjectRosettaen
dc.subjectTwo Days, One Nighten
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleVisionary Critique: Gender, Self and Relationship in Rosetta and Two Days, One Nighten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-11-22T00:32:33
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/40
local.source.epage66
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleFrom Social Criticism to Hope. The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
local.source.spage45
local.source.volume2

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