Author Biography

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (2016), Relocating Popular Music (2015), co-edited with Georgina Gregory, From Self- Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (2015), and European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (2011). Mazierska is the principal editor of the Studies in Eastern European Cinema journal.Zsolt Gyori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of British Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He has edited collections of essays in Hungarian on British cinema, on body, subjectivity, race and gender in post-communist Hungarian cinema and the connective structures of space, power and identity in Hungarian cinema. He is also the author of Films, Auteurs, Critical-Clinical Readings (2014).

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsIntroductions: Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern EuropeEwa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Zsolt Gyori (University of Debrecen, Hungary)Chapter 1 1968 Leftist Utopianism in The Young Girls of Rochefort and Hot SummerEvan Torner (University of Cincinnati, USA)Chapter 2Representing Modern Romania in the Musical of State Socialist Period Gabriela Filippi (I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Romania)Chapter 3 Worlds That Never Were: Contemporary Eastern European Musical Comedies and the Memory of SocialismBalázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)Chapter 4 Pop Music, Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dollybirds and Liza, the Fox FairyHajnal Király (Insitute for Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary)Chapter 5 When the Golden Kids Met the Bright Young Men and Women: Rebellion, Innovation and Cultural Tradition in the Czech 1960s Music FilmJonathan Owen (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)Chapter 6 'Music Isn't Music, Words Aren't Words': Underground Music in the Hungarian Cinema of the New SensibilityZsolt GyoriChapter 7Socialist Night Fever: Yugoslav Disco on Film and TelevisionMarko Zubak (Croatian Institute of History, Croatia)Chapter 8 Disco Polo and Techno according to Maria Zmarz-KoczanowiczEwa Mazierska Chapter 9 Musical Variations in Karpo Godina's Alternative CinemaAndrej Šprah (Slovenian Cinematheque, Slovenia)Chapter 10 Polish Music Videos: Between Parochialism and UniversalismEwa Mazierska Chapter 11 'She Stole It from Beyoncé!' – Transnational Borrowing in Bulgarian Pop-Folk Music Videos and Audience Reaction to the PracticeMaya Nedyalkova (Oxford Brookes University, UK)Chapter 12 Postsocialist Social Reality in Hungarian Rap Music VideosAnna Batori (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)List of ContributorsIndex

Review

This book changes the current miniscule landscape by proposing twelve chapters reflecting the way popular music has been used in musicals, biopics, music videos and documentary film in Eastern Europe from 1945 to the present day. The historical period renders this offering even more interesting, in view of the huge impact of the political regime change three decades ago, but also that of more recent transnationalization, commodification and neoliberalization of the creative industries. * Studies in Eastern European Cinema *
Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe offers a refreshing and original contribution to the research on the region's cultural production. The authors vigorously demonstrate the paramount importance of the interface between cinema and popular music in negotiating hegemonic cultures and ideologies. * Elzbieta Ostrowska, Lecturer in English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada *
The volume offers valuable insight into the intersections of film and popular music in Eastern Europe through a set of intriguing case studies from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, spanning an extensive time period, although primarily focusing on the socialist era and its nostalgic evocations through music and film in postsocialism. Ranging from musical films – a strong focus of the book – to contemporary (Hungarian) rap or (Bulgarian) folk pop music videos, the contributions enable comparisons with regard to the musical and cinematic construction of past and present, localities and identities across genres and among different national environments within Eastern Europe. The chapters also offer unique explorations of the construction and representation of the East–West relationship as lived socially and culturally. * Emília Barna, Assistant Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary *
The study of popular music in Eastern Europe is a relatively new area. In this wide ranging and informative collection, Ewa Mazierska and Zsolt Gyori have assembled a range of contributors who not only provide new insights into the role of musicals in East European cinemas but also examine the relatively uncharted areas of disco, music video and rap music. Examining the situation under both state socialism and capitalism, they provide original historical accounts together with new theoretical applications and insights. The book provides essential reading and an important expansion in the field of popular music studies. * Peter Hames, Visiting Professor in Film Studies, Staffordshire University, UK *

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This book changes the current miniscule landscape by proposing twelve chapters reflecting the way popular music has been used in musicals, biopics, music videos and documentary film in Eastern Europe from 1945 to the present day. The historical period renders this offering even more interesting, in view of the huge impact of the political regime change three decades ago, but also that of more recent transnationalization, commodification and neoliberalization of the creative industries.

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This volume examines the relationship between popular music and the moving image in fiction films, including musicals, music videos and documentaries.

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Written largely by local specialists with insight knowledge of specific national cinemas and popular music, yet sensitive to the transnational and global character of the examined phenomena

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