Poland Daily : : Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema / / Ewa Mazierska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mazierska, Ewa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Interwar Cinema: Striving for Social Promotion -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 7 The 1990s Heroic Neoliberalism or Everybody Can Be a Winner -- CHAPTER 8 The 2000s and Beyond: Accumulation by Dispossession -- Bibliography -- Index