The cinema of Andrzej Wajda : the art of irony and defiance / edited by John Orr & Elżbieta Ostrowska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orr, John, 1943-2010.

Ostrowska, Elżbieta.

Series:

Directors' cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wajda, Andrzej, 1926-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Wajda, Andrzej.

Wajda, Andrzej, 1926-2016.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2003.

Summary:

This book is a major reassessment of the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who received a Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2000. This timely collection 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," The contributors consider Wajda's daring innovations in style, his concern with Polish history and nationhood, and his artistic defiance of authoritarian rule during the Cold War, particularly in such films as "Man of Marble" and "Man of Iron," A wide-ranging examination of this prolific filmmaker, "The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda" covers four decades of films that reflect not only the major changes in this director's work but also the changing nature of cinema itself.

Contents:

Foreword: Cinema: Past and Present ix

Preface: The Importance of Andrzej Wajda xviii

1 At the Crossroads: Irony and Defiance in the Films of Andrzej Wajda / John Orr 1

2 Wajda's Imagination of Disaster: War Trauma, Surrealism and Kitsch / Paul Coates 15

3 'He Speaks To Us': The Author in Everything For Sale, Man of Marble and Pan Tadeusz / Tadeusz Lubelski 30

4 Dangerous Liaisons: Wajda's Discourse of Sex, Love and Nation / Elzbieta Ostrowska 46

5 Changing Meanings of Home and Exile: From Ashes and Diamonds to Pan Tadeusz / Izabela Kalinowska 64

6 Wajda's Filmic Representation of Polish-Jewish Relations / Michael Stevenson 76

7 Remembering and Deconstructing: The Historical Flashback in Man of Marble and Man of Iron / Maureen Turim 93

8 'Visual Eloquence' and Documentary Form: Meeting Man of Marble in Nowa Huta / Bjorn Sorenssen 103

9 Catastrophic Spectacles: Historical Trauma and the Masculine Subject in Lotna / Christopher J. Caes 116

10 Wajda, Grotowski and Mickiewicz: The Dialectics of Apotheosis and Derision / Michael Goddard 132

11 Andrzej Wajda's Vision of 'The Promised Land' / Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska 146

12 As the Years Pass, As the Days Pass...

An Ironic Epic / Tomasz Klys 160

13 'Ojczyzno Moja': Adapting Pan Tadeusz / Lisa Di Bartolomeo 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-200) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 190-193.

ISBN:

1903364574

1903364892

OCLC:

52565370