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  • Screen as Battlefield

    Confronting the Past in New Polish Cinema

    by Marek Haltof, Piotr Zwierzchowski ...
    Screen as Battlefield deals with the treatment of history in Polish cinema after the end of communist rule in 1989 and the return of democracy.It analyzes not only how local filmmakers have represented the last century's complex history, but also how various government institutions have tried to influence the cinematic vision of the past through funding (or the lack of it) and by using political ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Polish Cinema

    A History

    by Marek Haltof ...
    First published in 2002, Marek Haltof’s seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe’s most distinguished—yet unjustly neglected—film cultures. Since then, seismic changes have reshaped Polish society, European politics, and the global film industry. This thoroughly revised and updated edition takes stock of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski

    Variations on Destiny and Chance

    by Marek Haltof ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy.In this new addition to the Directors'Cuts series, Marek Haltof provides a comprehensive study of Kieslowski's cinema, discussing industrial practices in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Polish Film and the Holocaust

    Politics and Memory

    by Marek Haltof ...
    During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema

    by Marek Haltof ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Prószynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow. Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupt side of communism. Poland has produced several internationally known ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • The Cinema of István Szabó

    Visions of Europe

    by John Cunningham ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    István Szabó is one of Hungary's most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the first Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, for Mephisto (1981). In a career spanning over five decades Szabó has relentlessly examined the place of the individual in European history, particularly those caught up in the turbulent events of Central Europe and his own native ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Sergei Eisenstein

    by Mike O'Mahony ...
    Series Book 19 - Critical Lives
    Few individuals have made as much of an impact upon a single medium as has Sergei Eisenstein upon cinema. His ground-breaking movies, such as Battleship Potemkin, October and Aleksandr Nevskii make regular appearances upon ‘all-time best movie’ lists, whilst classic sequences from these movies, such as the baby in the pram on the Odessa steps (Battleship Potemkin), and the battle on the ice ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Visions of Avant-Garde Film

    Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism

    by Kamila Kuc ...
    Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside the Film Factory

    New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Ian Christie, Professor Richard Taylor, Richard Taylor ...
    This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame

    by Michael Munn ...
    In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars, whether they were actors, writers, or musicians, could be one of only two things. If they were compliant, they were lauded and awarded status symbols for the regime; but if they resisted—or were ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Directory of World Cinema: East Europe

    Edited by Adam Bingham ...
    Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Krzysztof Kieślowski

    Interviews

    Edited by Renata Bernard, Steven Woodward ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Krzysztof Kieślowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died.Kieślowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD