Ewa Mazierska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1395112 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ewa Mazierska |
| NOMBRES | Ewa |
| APELLIDO | Mazierska |
| FIRMA | MAZIERSKA E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4385-8264 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Reception of Dean Reed in the Eastern Bloc
This article explores a hitherto unknown chapter in Dean Reed’s artistic career in Eastern Europe. Based on an analysis of primary sources, including original interviews with the singer’s collaborators and friends, it examines the reception of Dean Reed and his music in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, as well as the individual and institutional agents who facilitated or benefited from his career. It considers him as a prominent representative…
Canons of Polish popular music during the post-WWII period
This article discusses the formation of canons of Polish popular music after the Second World War. It presents the main actors of canonization and discusses how the politics of canons changed over time, what types of musicians it benefitted in terms of genres and gender, and how the canonization process in Poland was similar and different from that which took place in the West. It argues that during the state socialist period, Polish professional…
International Festival of Pop Songs, ‘Bratislavská Lýra’ and the challenges of Eastern European music internationalization
This article deals with the functioning of Eastern European song festivals, which emerged during the boom of European festival culture in the 1960s. It focuses on one of the most important Eastern European shows—the International Festival of Pop Songs ‘Bratislavská Lýra’—which was established in Czechoslovakia in 1966, with particular attention to the issues of internationalization and international exchange of Eastern European pop music mediated…
The Role of Film Archives in Creating Canons of Eastern European Cinema
This article discusses the role of Eastern European film archives in creating national and regional cinematic canons. To examine how Eastern European archives contributed to the canonisation of films, it looks at the interests and tastes of the staff working in film archives—especially in the early phase of their existence—the programming of archive cinemas, and the politics of film digitisation. This choice is dictated by two principal considera…
The transformation of the figure of a maid in three adaptations of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau
This article discusses three adaptations of the novel Le Journal d’une femme de chambre ( The Diary of a Chambermaid ) by Octave Mirbeau, published in 1900, by Jean Renoir in 1946, by Luis Buñuel in 1964 and by Benoît Jacquot in 2015. It examines the effect of the time and, to some degree, the places where these films were made, on the representation of the characters and stories adapted by the respective directors. It is particularly interested …
Singing One’s Life
This article compares two films about French singing stars: La Môme (La Vie en Rose, 2007), directed by Olivier Dahan and Dalida (2016), directed by Lisa Azuelos, respectively about Edith Piaf and Dalida. It argues that Dahan in La Vie en Rose attempted to make a feminist biopic, which recognises that a famous woman can live mostly for her art or even equate her life with her art. This does not necessarily mean that such a woman, Piaf in this cas…
Documentary Films About Polish Transformation from State Socialism to Capitalism
This article discusses Polish documentary films made after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, till 2005. I focus on films concerning class issues, not least because the changes which happened in 1989 were as political as they were economic in their character, leading to creating a distinct class stratification: winners and losers. I examine here films made in the 1990s till the mid-2000s, as it can be argued that after this period, the transfo…
EO. Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski. Poland
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Polish Modernization in Biographical Films of the 2010s
This article examines representation of the state socialist past in three Polish biographical films, made in the 2010s, Bogowie (Gods, 2014), directed by Łukasz Palkowski, Sztuka kochania (The Art of Loving, 2017), directed by Maria Sadowska and Ostatnia rodzina (The Last Family, 2017), directed by Jan P. Matuszyński. It argues that it them Poland is represented as a country trying to modernize itself and investigates how this modernization is ac…
The Added Value of Oscars and Festival Awards
This article discusses the value of the Academy Awards and awards received by filmmakers at film festivals, as well as other advantages of participating in them. It does so by taking into consideration several aspects of film awards: their effect on the monetary profit made by the winning films, their effect on the construction of the film canon and the ‘cinematic map’ of the world. It also examines factors conducive to receiving awards, such as …
Queer(in)g Poland in the 21st Century
This special issue emerged from the largest-ever international conference on Polish gender issues outside of Poland, The Impacts of Gender Discourse on Polish Politics, Society and Culture, organiz
Challenges to British Nightclubs During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article assesses the situation of nightclubs in Britain during the Covid-19 pandemic, considering the prospects for this segment of the British night time economy as the Covid crisis unfolded as well as its long-term prospects, in light of the changing patterns of the consumption of club music. It is based on interviews with leading professionals working in the sector, who have long-term experience of managing clubs, organising events and ov…
The Future of Live Music
What “live music” means for one generation or culture does not necessarily mean “live” for another. This book examines how changes in economy, culture, and technology pertaining to post-digital times – most importantly drops in recording revenues – affect production, performance, and reception of live music. Considering established examples of live music, such as music festivals, alongside less obvious and hybridised forms, including live streami…
World Cinema, Third Cinema
This article examines the term ‘World Cinema’ by comparing it to ‘world literature’, as understood by two German thinkers of the Romantic period: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Karl Marx, who attributed universal appeal to it. It argues that World cinema, like world literature, testifies to the unequal distribution of economic and cultural power. World Cinema refers to cinemas of peripheries, cinematic production of ‘developing’ or Third World co…
Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context
Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age
Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as ‘post-digital’ and ‘post-internet’. It also discusses the creation, monetisation and consumption of music and what changes in the music industry can tell us about wider shifts in economy and culture. This collection of 13 case studies covers issues such as curation algo…
Improvisation in Electronic Music—The Case of Vienna Electronica
The purpose of this article is to establish what improvisation means and how it is used by electronic musicians operating in Vienna from the late 1980s till the present day: Peter Rehberg, Peter Kruder, Rupert Huber, Patrick Pulsinger, and the members of the band Sofa Surfers. It attempts to find out whether they believe that their choice of electronic instruments enhanced or impeded their ability to improvise and their sense of artistic agency; …
Aliens in an Alien World
The article examines The Man Who Fell to Earth by Nicholas Roeg and Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer, comparing them with each other and their respective literary originals (hypotexts), in order to establish how aliens and humans are represented in these films and how these representations reflect their respective ideologies. The authors argue that while Roeg’s film, in common with its original, uses the story of Newton to criticise corporate ca…
Heading North
Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology
Introduction
Popular Music in Eastern Europe
The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
This edited collection is the first book to draw together a range of theoretical and critical approaches relating to the filmed human bodies of Eastern European and Russian cinema. While much research has been conducted within film studies into the representation of the body in Western European (and ‘world’) cinemas, much less attention has been paid to the bodies and sensations of Eastern European film. The collection examines representations of…
Relocating Popular Music
Relocating Popular Music uses the lens of colonialism and tourism to analyse types of music movements, such as transporting music from one place or historical period to another, hybridising it with a
Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema
All countries and nations are deeply affected by their neighbours and every national cinema reflects this relationship. This book explores how postcolonial approaches can ‘frame’ the neighbours of people living in Eastern Europe. It elucidates how the region has evolved from being a communist extension of the Soviet Union to becoming integrated into neoliberal capitalism. Drawing on classical studies of post-coloniality by Edward Said, Gayatri C.…
Tourism and the moving image
Road to authenticity and stability
The purpose of this article is to examine the discourse on travel and tourism in the films of one of the most famous French directors and co-creator of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer, by looking at the holiday aspect of the lives of Rohmer’s characters, and the wider problem of the significance of geographical change in their lives. What interests me in particular is the opinion articulated in Rohmer’s films of what constitutes an enjoyable and…
Wanda Jakubowska’s Cinema of Commitment
The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–98), the first Polish, female film director to gain national and international recognition. Her career spanned over 50 years, in which she directed 14 full-length feature films, thus being the longest working film director in the history of Polish cinema. She was also one of the highest profile filmmakers to join the Polish communist party after the…
Any Town? Post-communist Warsaw in Juliusz Machulski's Girl Guide (1995) and Kiler (1997)
(1999). Any Town? Post-communist Warsaw in Juliusz Machulski's Girl Guide (1995) and Kiler (1997) Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 515-530
Non-Jewish Jews, Good Poles and Historical Truth in the Films of Andrzej Wajda
(2000). Non-Jewish Jews, Good Poles and Historical Truth in the Films of Andrzej Wajda. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 213-226
Wanda Jakubowska’s Cinema of Commitment
The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–98), the first Polish, female film director to gain national and international recognition. Her career spanned over 50 years, in which she directed 14 full-length feature films, thus being the longest working film director in the history of Polish cinema. She was also one of the highest profile filmmakers to join the Polish communist party after the…
In the Land of Noble Knights and Mute Princesses
Devils, Crows, Women
Dorota Kçdzierzawska, who directed only three full-length films, is regarded as one of the most original post-communist Polish filmmakers. All of Kçdzierzawska’s films: Diabty, diably(Devils, Devils, 1991), Wrony(The Crows, 1994) and Nic(Nothing, 1998) are discussed here in chronological order. The paper asks why her œuvreoccupies the margins of Polish national cinema. The author also analyses Kçdzierzawska’s choice of characters (ethnic minoriti…
Road to authenticity and stability
The purpose of this article is to examine the discourse on travel and tourism in the films of one of the most famous French directors and co-creator of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer, by looking at the holiday aspect of the lives of Rohmer’s characters, and the wider problem of the significance of geographical change in their lives. What interests me in particular is the opinion articulated in Rohmer’s films of what constitutes an enjoyable and…
The Exclusive Pleasures of Being a Second Generation Inteligent
This article discusses Wajda’s discourse on class. First it identifies the most important problems the concept raises when applied to Wajda’s characters and narratives. Next, it discusses the director’s representation and evaluation of three types of characters: the intelligentsia, the working class, and individuals who fall in between these two groups. In addition, the article analyzes how the representation of class is influenced by Wajda’s att…
Ambitions, temptations and disappointments
Multifunctional Chopin
Cinema of Hard Times
The collapse in 1989 of so-called “really existing socialism” in Poland affected the population in a profound way. The purpose of this essay is to establish how Polish films reflect and assess these changes. I am interested in the representation of society, especially the situation of young people, families and the functioning of institutions, such as education, the police and the church. I limit my analysis to a representative handful of films, …
Tourism and the moving image
In The Name Of Absent Fathers And Other Men
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema
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 Republ…
Polish martial law of 1981 in Polish post-communist films
This essay discusses representations of Polish martial law of 1981 in Polish feature films made after communism collapsed. It considers them against the political history of Poland over the last thirty years, especially the history of Solidarity and the shift from communism to post-communism. It argues that the way martial law is portrayed changed over the years. While initially, as represented by Kutz’s Death as a Slice of Bread, the aim was to …
Eastern European cinema
This opening article looks at the changing ways of conceptualizing Eastern Europe as a region, particularly since the political changes of 1989. This is discussed alongside the changes and emerging trends in more recent scholarship on Eastern European cinema.
European Cinema and Intertextuality
This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film, exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This includes the Seco
Work in Cinema
Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type
Work in Cinema
Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema
All countries and nations are deeply affected by their neighbours and every national cinema reflects this relationship. This book explores how postcolonial approaches can ‘frame’ the neighbours of people living in Eastern Europe. It elucidates how the region has evolved from being a communist extension of the Soviet Union to becoming integrated into neoliberal capitalism. Drawing on classical studies of post-coloniality by Edward Said, Gayatri C.…
Gender Discourse in Eastern European SF Cinema
Relocating Popular Music
Relocating Popular Music uses the lens of colonialism and tourism to analyse types of music movements, such as transporting music from one place or historical period to another, hybridising it with a
Popular Music in Eastern Europe
The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
This edited collection is the first book to draw together a range of theoretical and critical approaches relating to the filmed human bodies of Eastern European and Russian cinema. While much research has been conducted within film studies into the representation of the body in Western European (and ‘world’) cinemas, much less attention has been paid to the bodies and sensations of Eastern European film. The collection examines representations of…
Heading North
Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology
Art (33 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (21 obras) · History (17 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Movie theater (17 obras) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (16 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Aesthetics (15 obras) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (13 obras)