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Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published over twenty books on film and popular music, including From Self-Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (2015), Marxism and Film Activism (2015), and European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (2011). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

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Introduction



PART I: INTERWAR CINEMA: STRIVING FOR SOCIAL PROMOTION



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



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



Chapter 7. The 1990s: Heroic Neoliberalism or Everybody Can Be a Winner

Chapter 8. The 2000s and Beyond: Accumulation by Dispossession



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