Polanski is well known; the name of the director of Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist is recognised and respected internationally. Yet even film critics find it difficult to say what a 'Polanski film' is. This welcome book unravels the meanings of Polanski's films, devoting each of its chapters to an important aspect: the autobiographical factor, characters and narratives, literary adaptations like Tess and the recent Oliver Twist, Polanski's use of many genres, his music, represented ideology and so on. In so doing, it uncovers both the common elements in his films and the ambiguities and paradoxes of his cinema. Ewa Mazierska reveals the essentials of Polanski the 'cinema kid', influenced by many people and movements, but like a magpie interested in everything that he encounters, moving easily between Europe and America, between low budget and big budget endeavours. This book is the perfect introduction to Polanski's films and at the same time delves deep into their complexities - sharing a real joy in their riches.
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"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." - Film International
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Ewa Mazierska is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Central Lancashire University. She is co-author, with Laura Rascaroli of From Moscow to Madrid (I.B. Tauris) and Dreams and Diaries: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti (Wallflower).
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Polanski's life and work on both sides of the Berlin Wall and in the Old and the New Worlds seems to cohere into nothing more or less than a demented imago of the latter half of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autobiographical effect, ninth gate, cultural traveller, pirate films, inner discord, genre cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bitter Moon, Los Angeles, Dance of the Vampires, The Ninth Gate, Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski, Simone Choule, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Second World War, Noah Cross, Andrzej Wajda, Susan Sontag, Andrzej Munk, French New Wave, Mazurian Lakes, Alfred Hitchcock, Evelyn Mulwray, Polish School, River of Diamonds, The Dumas Club, Doctor Miranda, Grazyna Stachówna, René Magritte, Schindler's List, Walter Benjamin New!
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Polanski's life and work on both sides of the Berlin Wall and in the Old and the New Worlds seems to cohere into nothing more or less than a demented imago of the latter half of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autobiographical effect, ninth gate, cultural traveller, pirate films, inner discord, genre cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bitter Moon, Los Angeles, Dance of the Vampires, The Ninth Gate, Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski, Simone Choule, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Second World War, Noah Cross, Andrzej Wajda, Susan Sontag, Andrzej Munk, French New Wave, Mazurian Lakes, Alfred Hitchcock, Evelyn Mulwray, Polish School, River of Diamonds, The Dumas Club, Doctor Miranda, Grazyna Stachówna, René Magritte, Schindler's List, Walter Benjamin New!
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