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Published: 24th February 2004
ISBN: 9781903364895
Number Of Pages: 208
For Ages: 22+ years old
This is a timely re-assessment by international scholars of the great Polish film director who received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2000. The book covers all aspects of his work, from his early trilogy of the 1950s - A Generation, Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds - to his 1999 epic Pan Tadeusz.
| Notes on Contributors | p. vii |
| Foreword: Cinema: Past and Present | p. ix |
| Preface: The Importance of Andrzej Wajda | p. xviii |
| At the Crossroads: Irony and Defiance in the Films of Andrzej Wajda | p. 1 |
| Wajda's Imagination of Disaster: War Trauma, Surrealism and Kitsch | p. 15 |
| 'He Speaks To Us': The Author in Everything For Sale, Man of Marble and Pan Tadeusz | p. 30 |
| Dangerous Liaisons: Wajda's Discourse of Sex, Love and Nation | p. 46 |
| Changing Meanings of Home and Exile: From Ashes and Diamonds to Pan Tadeusz | p. 64 |
| Wajda's Filmic Representation of Polish-Jewish Relations | p. 76 |
| Remembering and Deconstructing: The Historical Flashback in Man of Marble and Man of Iron | p. 93 |
| 'Visual Eloquence' and Documentary Form: Meeting Man of Marble in Nowa Huta | p. 103 |
| Catastrophic Spectacles: Historical Trauma and the Masculine Subject in Lotna | p. 116 |
| Wajda, Grotowski and Mickiewicz: The Dialectics of Apotheosis and Derision | p. 132 |
| Andrzej Wajda's Vision of 'The Promised Land' | p. 146 |
| As the Years Pass, As the Days Pass...--An Ironic Epic | p. 160 |
| 'Ojczyzno Moja': Adapting Pan Tadeusz | p. 172 |
| Filmography | p. 190 |
| Bibliography | p. 194 |
| Index | p. 201 |
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ISBN: 9781903364895
ISBN-10: 1903364892
Series: Directors' Cuts
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 208
Published: 24th February 2004
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 16.2
x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.44
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