Poland daily : economy, work, consumption and social class in Polish cinema /

Mazierska, Ewa,

Poland daily : economy, work, consumption and social class in Polish cinema / Ewa Mazierska. - 1 online resource (346 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Interwar cinema: striving for social promotion -- The 1920s: the cult of the body and the machine -- The 1930s: the beauty and sadness of the room at the top -- The cinema in people's Poland: taking a great leap -- The 1950s: holy work? -- The 1960s: industrial expansion and small stabilisation -- The 1970s: bad work and good life -- The 1980s: between refusal to work and alienation of labour -- Postcommunist cinema: from triumphant neoliberalism to accumulation by -- Dispossession -- The 1990s: heroic neoliberalism or everybody can be a winner -- The 2000s and beyond: accumulation by dispossession.

9781785335372 (e-book)


Social classes in motion pictures.
Social problems in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Poland.
Motion pictures--Economic aspects--Poland.
Motion pictures--History--Poland--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Poland--21st century.


Poland--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.S6 / M36 2017

791.43/7509438