From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Journalism, Media and Performance, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010), Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (Berghahn, 2008) and with Laura Rascaroli,Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1.Homo Faber and the Work of Cinema

Chapter 2. The 1960: In Search of Self- Fulfilment

Chapter 3. The 1970s: Seeking Change

Chapter 4. The 1980s: Learning to Survive

Chapter 5. The 1990s, the 2000s and Beyond: Moving towards the Unknown



Conclusions: Towards the New Cinema of Work and Idleness



Notes

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Index