Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80073-209-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazierska, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mazierska, Ewa
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published over twenty books on film and popular music, including From Self-Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (2015), Marxism and Film Activism (2015), and European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (2011). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.