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The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989
Kamila (Editor) Kuc
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Description for The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989
Hardback. Editor(s): Kuc, Kamila; O'Pray, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJ; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka and Stefan Themerson; the Polish Futurists' (Jalu Kurek, Anatol Stern) engagement with film; the Thaw and animation (Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Pawlowski, Zbigniew Rybczynski); documentary (Natalia Brzozowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Wojciech Wiszniewski), Polish emigre filmmakers (Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski) as well as essays and documentation on the highly ... Read more
This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka and Stefan Themerson; the Polish Futurists' (Jalu Kurek, Anatol Stern) engagement with film; the Thaw and animation (Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Pawlowski, Zbigniew Rybczynski); documentary (Natalia Brzozowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Wojciech Wiszniewski), Polish emigre filmmakers (Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski) as well as essays and documentation on the highly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169820
SKU
V9780231169820
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About Kamila (Editor) Kuc
Kamila Kuc teaches film at the universities of Kingston and Brighton, UK. She is co-editor Laura Mulvey: Do Utraty Wzroku (ha!Art, 2010). Michael O'Pray is retired Professor of Film in the School of Art, Architecture and Theory, University of East London. He has published widely on avant-garde film and animation.
Reviews for The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989
Highly recommended. CHOICE The variety of voices contained within this slim volume celebrates the different kinds of discourse generated by and about avant-garde filmmakers. The result is a collection as formally experimental as many of the films in question-one that makes for exuberant reading. Slavic and East European Journal