HEJKUM GEJKUM?

Piotr Sobolczyk

Instytut Badań Literackich PAN

Abstract

By reinterpreting the Polish cult comedy Kingsajz (Kingsize, 1987), which is generally assumed to be a political allegory, this article argues that the film lends itself to a queer reading, as a statement on so-called regimes of gender. The author analyzes numerous homoerotic allusions in the film, and questions the dominant Polish reception code which privileges political interpretations over other possible readings, and which treats the political and the sexual as mutually exclusive.

Keywords: People’s Republic of Poland, film, Juliusz Machulski , homoerotic allusions, camp