Naslov
‘I am tired from all of these feelings’: Narrating suffering in the film Sick

Autori
Božić-Vrbančić, Senka ; Kokanović, Renata ; Kupsjak, Jelena

Izvornik
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (1474-0222) 17 (2018), 1; 69-83

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Narratives of suffering, redemptive narrative, the politics of sentimentality, compassion, heteronormativity

Sažetak
This article explores ‘the politics of sentimentality’ with specific reference to the documentary film Sick, which represents the narrative of a young lesbian woman, Ana, who was confined in a psychiatric hospital in Croatia and ‘treated’ for her homosexuality. We consider the ways our most intimate emotional relationships and states, such as pain and suffering, articulate with a wider context of familial citizenship and critically examine the political limits of compassion within the sentimentalised public sphere. In this analysis, we problematise the film’s emotional logic, which presents an individualised narrative resolution at the expense of dwelling on the political question of institutional violence. We examine the role that politics of sentimentality plays in neutralising the film’s political critique of the state apparatuses (psychiatry and family) that enforce heterosexual norms.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Etnologija i antropologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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