The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia

Between Pain and Pleasure

Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, Elżbieta Ostrowska

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474405157
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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, The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia 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.

Table of contents

• The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction Shaping the Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
• PART I Wounds and Traumas
• 1 ‘What does Poland Want From Me?’ Male Hysteria in Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy
• 2 Alcoholism and the Doctor in Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó
• 3 Playing Dead: Pictorial Figurations of Melancholia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
• 4 The Body Breached: Post-Soviet Masculinity on Screen
• PART II Transgressions and Pleasures
• 5 Borowczyk as Pornographer
• 6 Queering Masculinity in Yugoslav Socialist Realist Films
• 7 Geographies of Carnality: Slippery Sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki’s Gay Hustler Trilogy
• 8 A Mass Doubling of Heroes: Post-human Objects of Queer Desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4
• PART III Carnal Histories
• 9 Phenomenological Approach to Czech Cinema The Touch of History: A Phenomenological Approach to 1960s Czech Cinema
• 10 Corporeal Exploration in György Pálfi’s Taxidermia
• 11 Aerial Bodies in Polish Cinema
• 12 The ‘Chemistry’ of Art(ifice) and Life: Embodied Paintings in East European Cinema
• Index