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

ISBN-13: 9781474405140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str.

Ewa Mazierska; Matilda Mroz; Elzbieta Ostrowska

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Male Body in Soviet Action Films, 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: Haptic-phenomenology and Czech Cinema in the 1960s, 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