Despite the opening up of Poland to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, approaches to Polish cinema have remained largely within a resolutely national framework. 'Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context' addresses this situation by examining the international reception of Polish films in Europe and North America, Polish international coproductions and the presence of Polish performers in foreign films, and the works of subversive (r)migr(r) auteurs
Author(s): Ewa Mazierska, Michael Goddard
Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Tags: Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Cinema, Polish Cinema
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Polish Cinema beyond Polish Borders
Part One: The International Reception of Polish Films
1 West of the East: Polish and Eastern European Film in the United Kingdom
2 The Shifting British Reception of Wajda’s Work from Man of Marble to Katyń
3 Affluent Viewers as Global Provincials: The American Reception of Polish Cinema
4 Polish Films at the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals: The 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
5 How Polish Is Polish Silver City and the National Identity of Documentary Film
Part Two: Polish International Coproductions and Presence in Foreign Films
6 Postcolonial Heterotopias: A Paracinematic Reading of Marek Piestrak’s Estonian Coproductions
7 Poland-Russia: Coproductions, Collaborations, Exchanges
8 Train to Hollywood: Polish Actresses in Foreign Films
9 Polish Performance in French Space: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz as a Transnational Actor
10 Polish Actor-Directors Playing Russians: Skolimowski and Stuhr
Part Three: Émigré and Subversive Polish Directors
11 An Island Near the Left Bank: Walerian Borowczyk as a French Left Bank Filmmaker
12 Beyond Polish Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema of Andrzej Żuławski
13 Polanski and Skolimowski in Swinging London
14 The Elusive Trap of Freedom? Krzysztof Zanussi’s International Coproductions
15 Agnieszka Holland’s Transnational Nomadism
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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