Katarzyna Marciniak, Kamil Turowski

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Streets of Crocodiles (eBook, ePUB)

Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland

Beschreibung

This title features stunning photos augmented by J. Hoberman's preface and Katarzyna Marciniak's essays. This powerful presentation of photographs of Poland from the late 1980s to the present depicts the hybridized landscape of this pivotal Eastern European nation following its entry into the European Union. A visual record of the country's transition from socialism to capitalism, it focuses on the industrial blue-collar city of Lodz - located in the heart of New Europe and home to nearly one million people. Photographer Kamil Turowski's pictures are captivating - seeming to conceal a looming threat - while Katarzyna Marciniak's accompanying text expands on the photos and the 'crocodilian' texture of contemporary Eastern Europe. A walk on the wild side, Streets of Crocodiles captures viscerally the changing landscape of postsocialist Poland.

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Autor

Katarzyna Marciniak is associate professor of transnational studies in the English Department at Ohio University. She has published on immigration, discourses of foreignness, postsocialist cultures, critical pedagogy, and transcultural cinema and literature in global contexts. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), coeditor of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2007), and guest coeditor of a special issue of Feminist Media Studies on 'Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference' (November 2009).

Kamil Turowski, a graduate of the National Film School in Lódz and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, specializes in short films, animations, and photo narratives. His early education in English philology gives a kaleidoscopic vision to his projects. Their semantic quiverings echo literary and philosophical sources, creating new visual territories and emotional intrigue. Turowski is also the author of the Polish-English translation of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto (Oxford University Press, 1996), now part of the canon of Holocaust literature. His films and photography have received recognition and support from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Kosciuszko Foundation, Dora Wood Artiste Fund, Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowments for the Arts. Portfolio at www.FotoFabula.org.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781841503349
• Artikelnr.: 37991664