Falco and Beyond - Neo Nothing Post of All - Ewa Mazierska
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Falco and Beyond - Neo Nothing Post of All - Ewa Mazierska
Ewa Mazierska [+]
University of Central Lancashire
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Ewa Mazierska is Professor in Film Studies at the School of Journalism and Digital Communication, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife (McFarland, 2011), Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and with Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006).
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While Falco’s beginnings coincide with the swan song of Keynesianism, the early 1980s, when he achieved his early successes, mark the beginning of neoliberalism. Falco is a perfect lens to research neoliberal popular art, because his career began when this system was coming into existence.