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Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Ewa Mazierska
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Description for Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Hardback. Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation's succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation's film history-from independence in 1918 to today-through the lenses of political economy and social class. Num Pages: 378 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJ; APF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar embedded capitalism, 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 ... Read more
Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from prewar embedded capitalism, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335365
SKU
V9781785335365
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About Ewa Mazierska
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Mazierska offers an extensively contextualized, behind-the-scenes mini-history of Polish films from the 1920s to the present... The bibliography is excellent, demonstrating the author's command of the secondary sources, including historical and economic overviews and film reviews. Recommended. - Choice