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Sexuality in dystopian movies
Structure:
Antonín Brinda
2, intention of an author was to depict a dystopian society
Louis Pierre Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1970
What is Dystopia?
- neomarxist, Karl Marx as a source of inspiration
- Reproduction of the Conditions of Production
- not enough just to produce - establishing the Conditions of Production is essential
- book: George Orwell (1949)
- movie: Michael Radford (1984); (Michael Anderson (1956) )
- George Lucas (1971)
- book: Margaret Atwood (1985)
- movie: Volker Schlöndorff (1990)
- baby question: sperm possibly taken by machine - genetic cultivation? cloning? ...
- The Ceremony - process of handmaid's insemination
- thinking about mens infertility is unacceptable - it is up to women to solve the situation
- men of high class has a lot of possibilities how to release sexual energy; sex substituted by faith - in God/regime -> tension
- problem of infertility (due to the pollution and sexually transimtted diseases)
- patriarchal theocratic totalitarian regime (eg for women it is forbidden to read) - handmaids (fertile women) serves as a commodity used for baby producing
- women are considered intellectually and emotionally inferior to men
- our protagonist "Offred" - means she is Of-Fred
- book: Aldous Huxley (1931)
- movie: Burt Brinckerhoff (1980)
- LUH 3417, THX 1138
- sexual activities are illegal; citizens don't have names, just numbers, sexuality is repressed as much as possible - unisex clothing, shortcut hair, sterile environment
- ways how to release a sexual tension; masturbation (done by a machine) when watching an erotic channel; watching the beating of the rebels
- concept of a family is completely destroyed, children are grown genetically by cloning (=> Alfa, Beta, Gama, Delta, Epsilon)
- mother/father = invectives
- seuxal intercourses are highly encouraged; avoiding sex or avoiding change of sexual partners is considered as unusual;
- term "love" is known only in use for "making love" (see John "the Savage" and Leninas relationship)
- motto: "Everyone is happy now." -> collective sports, travelling across the planet, "feelies" - everything should remain surface
- book: William F. Nolan - George Clayton Johnson (1967)
- movie: Michael Anderson (1976); (Michael O'Herlihy - Steven Hilliard Stern and others (1977-78) )
- society of joy simillar to the BNW - people living in a big dome due to the pollution outside
- ritually killed at age of 30 - "Carrousel" => cult of youth, enjoyment, surface
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