Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar "embedded liberalism," through the state socialism of the Soviet era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has been inflected by these changing historical circumstances, both mirroring and resisting them. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation's film history-from the reemergence of an independent Poland in 1918 to the present day-through the lenses of political economy and social class, showing how Polish cinema…mehr
Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar "embedded liberalism," through the state socialism of the Soviet era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has been inflected by these changing historical circumstances, both mirroring and resisting them. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation's film history-from the reemergence of an independent Poland in 1918 to the present day-through the lenses of political economy and social class, showing how Polish cinema documented ordinary life while bearing the hallmarks of specific ideologies.
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 Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: INTERWAR CINEMA: STRIVING FOR SOCIAL PROMOTION Chapter 1. The 1920s: The Cult of the Body and the Machine Chapter 2. The 1930s: The Beauty and Sadness of the Room at the Top PART II: THE CINEMA IN PEOPLE'S POLAND: TAKING A GREAT LEAP Chapter 3. The 1950s: Holy Work? Chapter 4. The 1960s: Industrial Expansion and Small Stabilization Chapter 5. The 1970s: Bad Work and Good Life Chapter 6. The 1980s: Between Refusal to Work and Alienation of Labour PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST CINEMA: FROM TRIUMPHANT NEOLIBERALISM TO ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION Chapter 7. The 1990s: Heroic Neoliberalism or Everybody Can Be a Winner Chapter 8. The 2000s and Beyond: Accumulation by Dispossession Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: INTERWAR CINEMA: STRIVING FOR SOCIAL PROMOTION Chapter 1. The 1920s: The Cult of the Body and the Machine Chapter 2. The 1930s: The Beauty and Sadness of the Room at the Top PART II: THE CINEMA IN PEOPLE'S POLAND: TAKING A GREAT LEAP Chapter 3. The 1950s: Holy Work? Chapter 4. The 1960s: Industrial Expansion and Small Stabilization Chapter 5. The 1970s: Bad Work and Good Life Chapter 6. The 1980s: Between Refusal to Work and Alienation of Labour PART III: POSTCOMMUNIST CINEMA: FROM TRIUMPHANT NEOLIBERALISM TO ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION Chapter 7. The 1990s: Heroic Neoliberalism or Everybody Can Be a Winner Chapter 8. The 2000s and Beyond: Accumulation by Dispossession Bibliography Index
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