Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski Variations on Destiny and Chance

Name: Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski Variations on Destiny and Chance
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ISBN: 9781903364918

ISBN-10: 1903364914

ISBN-13: 9781903364918

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marek Haltof

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Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy. In this new addition to the Directors'Cuts series, Marek Haltof provides a comprehensive study of Kieslowski's cinema, discussing industrial practices in Poland and stressing that the director did not fit the traditional image of a "great" East-Central European auteur. He draws a fascinating portrait of the stridently independent director's work, noting that Kieslowski was not afraid to express unpopular views in film or in life. Haltof also shows…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 6/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Marek Haltof is Professor at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. His recent books include the Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema (2007), Australian Cinema: The Screen Construction of Australia (in Polish, 2005), The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance (2004), and Polish National Cinema (2002).



Acknowledgements


Preface



Documenting the Unrepresented World



Film-Essays: Kieslowski and Polish Cinema in the 1970s and During the Solidarity Period



Pedestrian Subway: A Short Film About Marriage



Personnel: Art and Politics



The Scar: Managers and Their Dilemmas



The Calm: Life as It Is



Camera Buff: Meditations on Film-making



Short Working Day: Mechanisms of Power



Choices, Chances and Politics



Blind Chance: Variations on Fate



No End: Requiem for Solidarity



Entomological Observations and Metaphysics in Decalogue



The Double Life of Kieslowski: European Art Film and the Polish Context



The Double Life of Veronique: Doppelgangers and Puppeteers



The Three Colours Trilogy: The Long Films About Love


Afterword


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index