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The cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia between pain and pleasure

Title
The cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia [electronic resource] : between pain and pleasure / edited by Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, and Elżbieta Ostrowska.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Mazierska, Ewa.
  • Mroz, Matilda.
  • Ostrowska, Elżbieta, 1961-
Description
1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
"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, and 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 book] 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."--
Uniform Title
Cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (Online)
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Europe, Eastern
  • Motion pictures > Russia (Federation)
  • Human body in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Shaping the cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia / Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz and Elżbieta Ostrowska -- "What does Poland want from me?" : male hysteria in Andrzej Wajda's War trilogy / Elżbieta Ostrowska -- Alcoholism and the doctor in Béla Tarr's Sátántangó / Calum Watt -- Playing dead : pictorial figurations of melancholia in contemporary Hungarian cinema / Hajnal Király -- The body breached : post-Soviet masculinity on screen / Helena Goscilo -- Borowczyk as pornographer / Ewa Mazierska -- Queering masculinity in Yugoslav socialist realist films / Nebojša Jovanović -- Geographies of carnality : slippery sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki's Gay hustler trilogy / Bruce Williams -- A mass doubling of heroes : post-human objects of queer desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 / Alexandar Mihailovic -- The touch of history : a phenomenological approach to 1960s Czech cinema / David Sorfa -- Corporeal exploration in Györgi Pálfi's Taxidermia / Małgorzata Bugaj -- Aerial bodies in Polish cinema / Dorota Ostrowska -- The 'chemistry' of art(ifice) and life : embodied paintings in East European Cinema / Ágnes Pethő.
LCCN
2016478766
OCLC
ssj0001971314
Title
The cinematic bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia [electronic resource] : between pain and pleasure / edited by Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, and Elżbieta Ostrowska.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Mazierska, Ewa.
Mroz, Matilda.
Ostrowska, Elżbieta, 1961-
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