Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Subtitle: Between Pain and Pleasure
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474405140
Subjects: Motion pictures, europe; Motion pictures, soviet union
Description: 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.