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

ISBN-13: 9781474431941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 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

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