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Author:   Ewa Mazierska (Professor of Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire) ,  Matilda Mroz (Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St. Andrews) ,  Elżbieta Ostrowska (Associate Professor, University of Łódź, Poland)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
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9781474405140

ISBN 10:   1474405142
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   18 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Index

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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

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 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 ""Impressive. The hard-working collaborators on this volume have made a formidable contribution."" -- Dina Iordanova, University of St Andrews, The Russian Review"

Author Information

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.

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