The 'chemistry' of art(ifice) and life : embodied paintings in East European Cinema / Ágnes Pethő. "What does Poland want from me?" : male hysteria in Andrzej Wajda's War trilogy / Elżbieta Ostrowska -- Alcoholism and the doctor in Béla Tarr's Sátántangó / Calum Watt -- Playing dead : pictorial figurations of melancholia in contemporary Hungarian cinema / Hajnal Király -- The body breached : post-Soviet masculinity on screen / Helena Goscilo -- Borowczyk as pornographer / Ewa Mazierska -- Queering masculinity in Yugoslav socialist realist films / Nebojša Jovanović -- Geographies of carnality : slippery sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki's Gay hustler trilogy / Bruce Williams -- A mass doubling of heroes : post-human objects of queer desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 / Alexandar Mihailovic -- The touch of history : a phenomenological approach to 1960s Czech cinema / David Sorfa -- Corporeal exploration in Györgi Pálfi's Taxidermia / Małgorzata Bugaj -- Aerial bodies in Polish cinema / Dorota Ostrowska -- The 'chemistry' of art(ifice) and life : embodied paintings in East European Cinema / Ágnes Pethő.
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, and 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, [the book] 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."-- Back cover.
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