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European Visions
This volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and »small cinemas« relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the »minor«, contributions address the relationship of small cinemas to Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in post-Socialist cinemas.
Pain of the Cervical Spine. Edition 3. WIDEO: Everyday exercises to be performed at home
Are you performing the exercises correctly? As the anatomy of the cervical spine is extremely complex, it is very important to control the strength and range of motion. If you lean your head in any direction without support, the neck muscles and ligaments will have to bear its weight. This causes significant tension of the muscles and stretching of the ligaments. When performing the exercises, you are not able to define precisely the angle by which you should flex or twist your head, or the neck. Therapeutic recommendations usually lack precision. What extreme position is recommended? How much should the neck flexion angle be? What should the plane of movement be? How to boost or stop the mo...
The Cinema of Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is one of the great maverick figures of world cinema, with a long career starting in Poland with his short films of the 1950s and running through to the present with Oliver Twist. This collection highlights the bold and dazzling diversity of his work as well as recurrent themes and obsessions.
Pain of the Cervical Spine
The cervical vertebrae are more than just elements of the osteoskeletal system. Disorders and diseases of the cervical spine affect the whole body. Your eyesight, hearing and balance can deteriorate. The flow of blood to the head is reduced, which results in vertigo and tension-induced pain. Pressure on nerve roots causes the numbing and weakening of arms and legs. Cervical discopathy impairs the work of the heart and lungs, and disrupts the functioning of the autonomous nervous system. Preventing spinal degeneration should be mandatory in our times when we work hard and get little rest. First of all, you need to focus on increasing the mobility of the vertebrae. This is aided by maintaining...
Roman Polanski
A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the open—and why we so rarely see it. The range of Polanski's filmmaking challenges traditional divisions between high and low culture. For example, The Ninth Gate is a brash pastiche of the horror genre, while The Pianist is an Academy Award-winner about the Holocaust. Dubbing Polanski a relentless critic of modernity, Morrison concludes that his career is representative of the fissures, victories, and rehabilitations of the last fifty years of international cinema. A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James Naremore
Roman Polanski
Collected interviews with the controversial European filmmaker of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist
The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski
Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy. In this new addition to the Directors'Cuts series, Marek Haltof provides a comprehensive study of Kieslowski's cinema, discussing industrial practices in Poland and stressing that the director did not fit the traditional image of a "great" East-Central European auteur. He draws a fascinating portrait of the stridently independent director's work, noting that Kieslowski was not afraid to express unpopular views in film or in life. Haltof also shows how the director's work remains unique in the context of Polish documentary and narrative cinema.
Past for the Eyes
How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.
Polish National Cinema
In the years since World War 2, Poland has developed one of Europe's most distinguished film cultures. This is a comprehensive study of Polish cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present.
