Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema, and shows how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book engages with diverse films, including ""Luna Park,"" ""Run, Lola, Run,"" ""Trainspotting,"" ""Wonderland,"" and many more. It tackles the issues about postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities over the last two decades under the effects of political change, from the postcommunist era in...
Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema,...
"Ewa Mazierska has written an important book... it] is original and fascinating scholarship. The range of films is broad, with a special emphasis on British, former Yugoslav, Polish and French cinema, and the book cuts across art house and popular cinema - from cult films to Carry On- all in the name of bringing our attention to one of cinema's otherwise most notable absent figures: work and working." - William Brown, University of Roehampton
Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in...
"Ewa Mazierska has written an important book... it] is original and fascinating scholarship. The range of films is broad, with a special emphasis o...
