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Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia

Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz, Elzbieta Ostrowska · 2018

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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, it 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.

Book details

Year
2018
Language
English
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Editions
5
Pages
272
ISBN
9781474431941

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