Ewa Mazierska

From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DüanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others. Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Journalism and Media, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010), Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (Berghahn, 2008) and with Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384861
• ISBN-10: 1782384863
• Artikelnr.: 42393189

Autorenporträt

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology (co-edited with Lars Kristensen, 2018), Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018), Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (2016) and Relocating Popular Music (co-edited with Georgina Gregory, 2015). Her recent monograph on popular electronic music in Vienna is forthcoming in 2019. Mazierska's work has been translated into over twenty languages. She is also principal editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1.Homo Faber and the Work of Cinema
Chapter 2. The 1960: In Search of Self- Fulfilment
Chapter 3. The 1970s: Seeking Change
Chapter 4. The 1980s: Learning to Survive
Chapter 5. The 1990s, the 2000s and Beyond: Moving towards the Unknown
Conclusions: Towards the New Cinema of Work and Idleness
Notes
Bibliography
Index