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Author:   Professor Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781845112967

ISBN 10:   1845112962
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 May 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. The autobiographical effect in the cinema of Polanski 2. The absurd and how to deal with it: narratives and characters in Polanski's films 3. Landscapes and inner sceneries: recurring visual motifs of Polanski's films 4. All that jazz and noise: music in Polanski's films 5. Trust yourself: Polanski's ideology 6. Adapt to survive and express oneself: Polanski's encounters with literature 7. Matrix or empty vessel: Polanski's uses of genre conclusion: the cinema of a cultural traveller Appendix: Filmography (with technical details and synopses Notes Bibliography Index

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FILM INTERNATIONAL'Discusses every Polanski-directed film up to Oliver Twist, and thankfully focuses on inter-film analysis that neither dwells on nor ignores the artist's biography'

Author Information

Ewa Mazierska is Reader in Contemporary Cinema at the University of Central Lancashire. She is co-author, with Laura Rascaroli of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities and Postmodern Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003) and Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (2006), and with El bieta Ostrowska, Women in Polish Cinema (2006).

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