This panel considers cinematic explorations and exploitations of the female body that have long been part of the East-Central European cultural imaginary. We are seeking papers that propose novel ways to examine the continuities and disruptions in the representations of female erotica from the communist period all the way to the recently emerging cinemas of East-Central Europe. Please send 300-500 word abstracts and brief biographical statements by September 30, 2010 to Lilla Tőke, lxtnce@rit.edu.