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The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Between Pain and Pleasure
Edited by Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz and Elżbieta Ostrowska
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Book Presentation:
A critical exploration of the human body in Eastern European and Russian film
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.
Case studies include:
• Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy
• Béla Tarr’s Satantango
• Wiktor Grodecki
• Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4
• Györgi Pálfi‘s Taxidermia
• Czechoslovak New Wave
• Yugoslav Socialist RealismContributors:
• Malgorzata Bugaj, University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling
• Helena Goscilo, Ohio State University
• Nebojša Jovanović, Central European University
• Hajnal Király, Eötvös Lóránd University
• Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire
• Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University
• Matilda Mroz, University of Sussex
• Dorota Ostrowska, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Elżbieta Ostrowska, University of Alberta
• Ágnes Pethő, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
• David Sorfa, University of Edinburgh
• Calum Watt, King’s College London
• Bruce Williams, William Paterson University
About the authors:
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies, at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Central LancashireMatilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. She held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (2008-2011), where her research focused on Polish cinema, and where she also completed her PhD in film theory (2004-2007).
Elżbieta Ostrowska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Audiovisual Media at the University of Łódź, 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.
Press Reviews:
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
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda (2004)
Dir. John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska
Subject: Director > Andrzej Wajda
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