Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ii
3. Figures iii
4. Introduction: Shaping the Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia 1
5. Part 1. Wounds and Traumas
6. 1. ‘What Does Poland Want from Me?’ Male Hysteria in Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy 31
7. 2. Alcoholism and the Doctor in Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó 53
8. 3. Playing Dead: Pictorial Figurations of Melancholia in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema 67
9. 4. The Body Breached: Post-Soviet Masculinity on Screen 89
10. Part II. Transgressions and Pleasures
11. 5. Borowczyk as Pornographer 113
12. 6. Queering Masculinity in Yugoslav Socialist Realist Films 132
13. 7. Geographies of Carnality: Slippery Sexuality in Wiktor Grodecki’s Gay Hustler Trilogy 146
14. 8. A Mass Doubling of Heroes: Post-human Objects of Queer Desire in Vladimir Sorokin and Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4 166
15. 9. The Touch of History: A Phenomenological Approach to 1960s Czech Cinema 187
16. 10. Corporeal Exploration in György Pálfi’s Taxidermia 207
17. 11. Aerial Bodies in Polish Cinema 222
18. 12. The ‘Chemistry’ of Art(ifice) and Life: Embodied Paintings in East European Cinema 239
19. Index 257