The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia

Between Pain and Pleasure

Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, Elżbieta Ostrowska (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3194-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Katyń (2012, Polity Press) and Elemental World Cinemas (2025, Brill). 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.

Introduction: Shaping the Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia, Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz and Elżbieta 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 Béla Tarr’s Satantango, Calum Watt

Chapter Three: Playing Dead: Pictorial Figurations of Melancholia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema, Hajnal Király

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, Nebojša Jovanović

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 Györgi Pálfi‘s Taxidermia, Małgorzata 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, Ágnes Pethő

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3194-1 / 1474431941
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3194-1 / 9781474431941
Zustand	Neuware