The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia Between Pain and Pleasure.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazierska, Ewa, editor.

Mroz, Matilda, editor.

Ostrowska, Elżbieta, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe, Eastern.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation).

Human body in motion pictures.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2016.

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, 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, it 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.

Contents:

Part I Wounds and Traumas

1 'What Does Poland Warn from Me?' Male Hysteria in Andrzej Wajda's War Trilogy / Elzbieta Ostrowska Ostrowska, Elzbieta 31

2 Alcoholism and the Doctor in Béla Tarr's Sátántangó / Calum Watt Watt, Calum 53

3 Playing Dead: Pictorial Figurations of Melancholia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema / Hajnal Kirdly Kirdly, Hajnal 67

4 The Body Breached; Post-Soviet Masculinity on Screen / Helena Goscilo Goscilo, Helena 89

Part II Transgressions and Pleasures

5 Borowczyk as Pornographer / Ewa Mazienka Mazienka, Ewa 113

6 Queering Masculinity in Yugoslav Socialist Realist Films / Nebojša Jovanovic Jovanovic, Nebojša 132

7 Geographies of Carnality: Slippery Sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki's Gay Hustler Trilogy / Bruce Williams Williams, Bruce 146

8 A Mass Doubling of Heroes: Post-human Objects of Queer Desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 / Alexandar Mihailovic Mihailovic, Alexandar 166

Part III Carnal Histories

9 The Touch of History: A Phenomenological Approach to 1960s Czech Cinema / David Sorfa Sorfa, David 187

10 Corporeal Exploration in György Pálfi's Taxidermia / Malgorzata Bugaj Bugaj, Malgorzata 207

11 Aerial Bodies in Polish Cinema / Dorota Ostrowska Ostrowska, Dorota 222

12 The 'Chemistry' of Art(ifice) and Life: Embodied Paintings in East European Cinema / Ágnes Petho Petho, Ágnes 239.

ISBN:

9781474405140

1474405142

OCLC:

945357174