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This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk.
List of contents
Introduction: Polish Cinema beyond Polish Borders
West of the East: Polish and Eastern European Film in the United Kingdom
The Shifting British Reception of Wajda's Work from Man of Marble to Katyn
Affluent Viewers as Global Provincials: The American Reception of Polish Cinema
Polish Films at the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals: The 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
How Polish Is Polish? Silver City and the National Identity of Documentary Film
Postcolonial Heterotopias: A Paracinematic Reading of Marek Piestrak's Estonian Coproductions
Poland-Russia: Coproductions, Collaborations, Exchanges
Train to Hollywood: Polish Actresses in Foreign Films
Polish Performance in French Space: Jerzy Radziwilowicz a Transnational Actor
Polish Actor-Directors Playing Russians:Skolimowski and Stuhr
An Island Near the Left Bank: Walerian Borowczyk as a French Left Bank Filmmaker
Beyond Polish Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema ofAndrzej Zulawskii
Polanski and Skolimowski in Swinging London
The Elusive Trap of Freedom? Krzysztof Zanussi's International Coproductions
Agnieszka Holland's Transnational Nomadism
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Ewa Mazierska, Michael Goddard
Summary
This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk.
