The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia

The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia Between Pain and Pleasure

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474405140
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.43094709045
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 550g
Height: 176mm
Width: 274mm
Spine width: 20mm