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Record Nr.

UNISA996248309303316

Autore

Mazierska Ewa

Titolo

Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak cinema : Black Peters and men of marble / / Ewa Mazierska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008

ISBN

1-84545-239-9

1-78238-216-X

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

791.43652041

Soggetti

Men in motion pictures

Masculinity in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Poland

Motion pictures - Czech Republic

Motion pictures - Slovakia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Polish and Czechoslovak Histories, Cultures and Cinemas; CHAPTER 2. Madmen, Martyrs, Dodgers: Men and War; CHAPTER 3. Who Is My Father?; CHAPTER 4. Larks on a String, or Men in Love; CHAPTER 5. You Will Not Find Much?; CONCLUSIONS. Between Fate and Emptiness; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that previously remained unknown, focusing on the relationship between representation of masculinity and nationality in the films of two and later three countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The objective of the book is to discuss the main types of men populating Polish, Czech and Slovak films: that of soldier, f