Vera Chytilova For Beginners Analysis

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In the article, "Vera Chytilova for beginners" Grey discusses how many of Chytilova's films were attacks on a patriarchal society, but she never considered herself as a feminist and did not want to associate herself of her work with the term. In the essay, "Doll Fragments," Lim writes, "My counterreading reading of the film discerns, beneath Daisies's apparent condemnation of its heroines, a feminist allegory in which the doll metaphor is retooled as a celebration of female recalcitrance." Throughout the essay associates Daises as a feminist response to a patriarchal society. Lim also discusses Chytilova's struggle to create the film during a period where the film industry was controlled and financed by the state. In response to the problems

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