The figure of the imaginary gypsy in film: I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Romani Studies Pub Date : 2016-04-09 DOI:10.3828/RS.2016.1

Radmila Mladenova

引用次数: 5

Abstract

The article presents a critical study of Aleksandar Petrović’s celebrated work I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967). The analysis focuses on the content and functions of the cinematic gypsy figure drawing its insights from Yuri M. Lotman’s spatial model of culture, Critical Whiteness Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Antigypsyism. The transposition of the fictional gypsy into the idiom of film is considered in detail on the level of plot, character delineation and visual aesthetics. The work of the renowned Serbian director makes a superb example of the artistic strategies by which the gypsy myth is rendered into an ‘authentic’ ethnographic document. Also, a parallel is drawn between gypsy films and blackface minstrelsy shows as a way of elucidating the three central functions of racial masquerade staged in effect in all gypsy films that make a claim to ethnographic truthfulness.

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电影《我甚至遇到了快乐的吉普赛人》(1967)中想象中的吉普赛人形象

本文对亚历山大·彼得罗维奇的著名作品《我甚至遇到过快乐的吉普赛人》(1967)进行了批判性研究。本文从尤里·洛特曼的文化空间模型、批判性白人研究、后殖民研究和反吉普赛主义等方面分析了电影吉普赛人物的内容和功能。本文从情节、人物刻画和视觉美学三个层面详细探讨了吉普赛人在电影中的角色转换。这位著名的塞尔维亚导演的作品是一个极好的例子，通过艺术策略，吉普赛人的神话被渲染成一个“真实的”民族志文献。此外，吉普赛人电影和黑脸吟游诗人表演之间也有相似之处，以此来阐明种族假面舞会的三个核心功能，这些功能在所有吉普赛人电影中都有效地上演，并声称具有人种学的真实性。

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来源期刊

Romani Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982. In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies. On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies. These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom. The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.