Overview

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.

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Author:   John Orr ,  Elzbieta Ostrowska
Publisher:   Wallflower Press
Imprint:   Wallflower Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781903364895

ISBN 10:   1903364892
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Foreword: Cinema: Past and Present by Andrzej Wajda Preface: The Importance of Andrzej Wajda 1 At the Crossroads: Irony and Defiance in the Films of Andrzej Wajda by John Orr 2 Wajda's Imagination of Disaster: War Trauma, Surrealism and Kitsch by Paul Coates 3 'He Speaks To Us': The Author in Everything For Sale, Man of Marble and Pan Tadeusz by Tadeusz Lubelski 4 Dangerous Liaisons: Wajda's Discourse of Sex, Love and Nation by Elzbieta Ostrowska 5 Changing Meanings of Home and Exile: From Ashes and Diamonds to Pan Tadeusz by Izabela Kalinowska 6 Wajda's Filmic Representation of Polish-Jewish Relations by Michael Stevenson 7 Remembering and Deconstructing: The Historical Flashback in Man of Marble and Man of Iron by Maureen Turim 8 'Visual Eloquence' and Documentary Form: Meeting Man of Marble in Nowa Huta by Bjrn Srenssen 9 Catastrophic Spectacles: Historical Trauma and the Masculine Subject in Lotna by Christopher J. Caes 10 Wajda, Grotowski and Mickiewicz: The Dialectics of Apotheosis and Derision by Michael Goddard 11 Andrzej Wajda's Vision of 'The Promised Land' by Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska 12 As the Years Pass, As the Days Pass... - An Ironic Epic by Tomasz Klys 13 'Ojczyzno Moja': Adapting Pan Tadeusz by Lisa Di Bartolomeo Filmography Bibliography Index

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John Orr is Professor Emeritus at Edinburgh University. Elzbieta Ostrowska teaches film at the University of Lodz.

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