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Sexuality in dystopian movies

Structure:

Antonín Brinda

  • Louis Pierre Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
  • What is Dystopia?
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • THX 1138
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Brave New World
  • Logan's Run

2, intention of an author was to depict a dystopian society

Louis Pierre Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1970

What is Dystopia?

  • Lyman Tower Sargent, Darko Suvin, John Huntington ... utopia, eutopia, dystopia, antiutopia
  • my definition:
  • 1, based on lie: "[...] it is a ,learning' to the reality formulated by leading group. In practical use that information exchange is happening via propaganda." (Vladimír Naxera - Ondřej Stulík); people are persuaded to believe they live in utopia

- 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

  • RSA - Repressive State Apparatus = the police, the army, the courts, the prisons, the head of State, the government, the administration

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

- book: George Orwell (1949)

- movie: Michael Radford (1984); (Michael Anderson (1956) )

  • sexual activities are illegal; allowed just with an intention to produce a baby
  • family as a formal unit, love is out of question
  • The Junior Anti-Sex League - "group of young adult Party members devoted to banning all sexual intercourse"
  • ISAs - Ideological State Apparatuses =
  • the religious ISA (the system of the different churches),
  • the educational ISA (the system of the different public and private ‘schools’),
  • the family ISA,
  • the legal ISA,
  • the political ISA (the political system, including the different parties),
  • the trade-union ISA,
  • the communications ISA (press, radio and television, etc.),
  • the cultural ISA (literature, the arts, sports, etc.)

  • ways how to release a sexual tension: "Two minutes of hate" ("[...] is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party's enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them)," participating on executions - sexual energy transformed into aggresion
  • Winston and Julia: "Do you like it?" "I love it." = sexual behavior of any kind as a form of revolt

  • THX 1138

- George Lucas (1971)

  • The Handmaid's Tale

- 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

  • Brave New World

- 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

  • Logan's Run

- 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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