Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and Eastern scholarship on the body, the book focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure, and the relationship between the body and history. Critically dissecting the different ideological and aesthetic ways human bodies are framed, The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia also demonstrates how bodily discourses oscillate between complicity and subversion, and how they shaped individuals and societies both during and after the period of state socialism.
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Impressive. The hard-working collaborators on this volume have made a formidable contribution. -- Dina Iordanova, University of St Andrews * The Russian Review * This book introduces us to many powerful and important movies, from Eastern Europe and Russia, that are far too little known in the English-speaking world. It widens our knowledge of the ways that body images, and the politics and pleasures of bodies, can be expressed in film.' -- Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
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20 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 236 mm
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978-1-4744-0514-0 (9781474405140)
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Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies, at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema (2020, Palgrave MacMillan) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012, EUP). She is co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016, EUP), Remembering Katyn (2012, Polity Press) and Elemental World Cinemas (2025, Brill). Elzbieta Ostrowska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Audiovisual Media at the University of Lodz, Poland. Her publications include Women in Polish Cinema, co-authored with Ewa Mazierska (2006), the co-edited volumes The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Between Pain and Pleasure (with Ewa Mazierska and Matilda Mroz) and The Cinema of Roman Polanski. Dark Spaces of the World. Her articles about film in have appeared in publications such as Slavic Review, Studies in European Cinema and Feminist Encounters.
Herausgeber*in
Professor of Film StudiesUniversity of Central Lancashire
Lecturer in Film StudiesUniversity of St. Andrews
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Lodz, Poland
Introduction: Shaping the Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia, Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz and Elzbieta Ostrowska
I: Wounds and Traumas
Chapter One: "What does Poland Want From Me?": Male hysteria in Andrzej Wajda's War Trilogy, Elzbieta Ostrowska
Chapter Two: Alcoholism and the Doctor in Bela Tarr's Satantango, Calum Watt
Chapter Three: Playing Dead: Pictorial Figurations of Melancholia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema, Hajnal Kiraly
Chapter Four: The Body Breached: Post-Soviet Masculinity on Screen, Helena Goscilo
II: Transgressions and Pleasures
Chapter Five: Borowczyk as Pornographer, Ewa Mazierska
Chapter Six: Queering Masculinity in Yugoslav Socialist Realist Films, Nebojsa Jovanovic
Chapter Seven: Geographies of Carnality: Slippery Sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki's Gay Hustler Trilogy, Bruce Williams
Chapter Eight: A Mass Doubling of Heroes: Post-Human Objects of Queer Desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4, Alexandar Mihailovic
III: Carnal Histories
Chapter Nine: The Touch of History: A Phenomenological Approach to 1960s Czech Cinema, David Sorfa
Chapter Ten: Corporeal Exploration in Gyoergi Palfi's Taxidermia, Malgorzata Bugaj
Chapter Eleven: Aerial Bodies in Polish Cinema, Dorota Ostrowska
Chapter Twelve: The 'Chemistry' of Art(ifice) and Life: Embodied Paintings in East European Cinema, Agnes Petho
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