Matilda Mroz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matilda Mroz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matilda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mroz |
| SIGNATURE | MROZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in Film Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elemental World Cinema
Recent ecocritical strands of thought have proposed a conceptualisation of the environment on the basis of its elemental constitution rather than an amorphous 'nature' supposedly divorced from humans In this burgeoning 'elemental ecocriticism' , the classical elements -earth, air, fire and water -reappear as objects of sustained philosophical enquiry and as concrete entities with which to recalibrate our interaction with the environment in the so…
Earth After Death
Recent environmental turns in research on the Holocaust and the moving images produced in its aftermath have suggested the potential of earth to bear “eco-witness” to atrocity and signal sites of mass burial through alterations to the topsoil and vegetation. However, the conjunction between the elemental and the human that occurs when a violated body decomposes in the earth to become ‘humus’ indicates a particularly distressing point of “trouble”…
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema
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…
The Monument and the Sewer
Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał/Kanal (1957) was expected by many audience members finally to portray the ‘true’ history of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, a history that had been distorted by Poland’s Communist government. This article argues that the virtual sphere of cinema could enact particular commemorative practices, partly founded upon constructing the viewer as a witness to authentic events. My analysis of the film’s internal conflicts partly draws upon…
Signs and Meaning in the Decalogue
Signs and Meaning in the Decalogue
The Monument and the Sewer
Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał/Kanal (1957) was expected by many audience members finally to portray the ‘true’ history of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, a history that had been distorted by Poland’s Communist government. This article argues that the virtual sphere of cinema could enact particular commemorative practices, partly founded upon constructing the viewer as a witness to authentic events. My analysis of the film’s internal conflicts partly draws upon…
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…
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema
Elemental World Cinema
Recent ecocritical strands of thought have proposed a conceptualisation of the environment on the basis of its elemental constitution rather than an amorphous 'nature' supposedly divorced from humans In this burgeoning 'elemental ecocriticism' , the classical elements -earth, air, fire and water -reappear as objects of sustained philosophical enquiry and as concrete entities with which to recalibrate our interaction with the environment in the so…
Earth After Death
Recent environmental turns in research on the Holocaust and the moving images produced in its aftermath have suggested the potential of earth to bear “eco-witness” to atrocity and signal sites of mass burial through alterations to the topsoil and vegetation. However, the conjunction between the elemental and the human that occurs when a violated body decomposes in the earth to become ‘humus’ indicates a particularly distressing point of “trouble”…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)