Aga Skrodzka is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Clemson University. Her research interests include world cinema, feminism, post-socialist cinemas, sexploitation cinema and visual narratives of sex work. She is the author of Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe and the lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. She is a member of the peer-review college for the UK-based journals Studies in European Cinema and Studies in Eastern European Cinemas. Her work has been published in Film Quarterly, Poetry Magazine, Studies in World Cinema and MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture.

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• Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Vernacular Magic Realism in Globalising Europe; 2. They Live on Mars: The Magic of the Periphery; 3. Wooden Monsters, Dead Bodies and Things: Embodying the Other; 4. Between Fantasy and Mimesis: Carnival, Children and Cinema; Epilogue: Three Encounters; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Aga Skrodzka is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Clemson University. Her research interests include world cinema, feminism, post-socialist cinemas, sexploitation cinema and visual narratives of sex work. She is the author of Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe and the lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. She is a member of the peer-review college for the UK-based journals Studies in European Cinema and Studies in Eastern European Cinemas. Her work has been published in Film Quarterly, Poetry Magazine, Studies in World Cinema and MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture.

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• Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Vernacular Magic Realism in Globalising Europe; 2. They Live on Mars: The Magic of the Periphery; 3. Wooden Monsters, Dead Bodies and Things: Embodying the Other; 4. Between Fantasy and Mimesis: Carnival, Children and Cinema; Epilogue: Three Encounters; Filmography; Bibliography; Index