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Shaping the Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
No full textBringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and Eastern scholarship on the body, the book focuses on three areas: the traumatized body, the body as a site of erotic pleasure, and the relationship between the body and history. Critically dissecting the different ideological and aesthetic ways human bodies are framed, The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia also demonstrates how bodily discourses oscillate between complicity and subversion, and how they shaped individuals and societies both during and after the period of state socialism
Borowczyk as Pornographer
No full textThis chapter discusses Borowczyk's representation of sex and the erotic body. It argues that by deciding to be a pornographer the director chose a career path that placed him in conflict with the two dominant ideologies in Poland, Catholocism and state socialism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Neighbours: Polish-Jewish relations in contemporary Polish visual culture
No full textThis article approaches Polish audio-visual engagements with the Holocaust from a new perspective, providing an important contribution to our knowledge of how visual culture is transforming Holocaust memory in the new millennium. The article identifies two developments in Holocaust representation: first, contemporary works are frequently produced in a transnational context, via international co-productions, or by artists with multiple national allegiances; secondly, much new Holocaust representation is produced across media boundaries, drawing variously on the characteristics of cinema, performance art, and installation.
The article outlines the predominant narrative through which Polish cinema has framed Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust, which the article terms the ‘hider/hidden’ paradigm, due to its emphasis upon Polish attempts to hide and rescue Jews. The article analyses recent transnational cinematic engagements with the ‘hider/hidden’ paradigm, including the first Polish-Israeli co-production, while considering how the films pose the ethical challenge of balancing empathic closeness to the ‘other’ with a respectful distance. Beyond the cinema, the article considers how this ethical dimension has been reconfigured when visual culture engages with the ‘counter- memory’ to the ‘hider/hidden’ paradigm: the revelations that Polish villagers killed their Jewish neighbours in 1941.The article points to where further research is needed on how the figure of the absent Jewish neighbour functions as a central element in contemporary representations of Polish-Jewish relations
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