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Series

ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS

Summary note

The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich, original oeuvre, which ranges from Holocaust dramas such as Europa, Europa (1990) to episodes of the HBO series The Wire. In examining the multifaceted nature of Holland's authorship, the study situates her work in the context of art, popular, national, European, Hollywood, transnational, women's, and queer cinema, as well as global television projects. Her colourful public persona oscillates among auteur, celebrity director, and political activist in an extraordinary professional trajectory, which started in the Eastern Bloc, continued in Western Europe and North America, then backtracked to a unified Europe. That zigzagged route conveys the unique nature of Holland's career while epitomising the transformations of post-Cold War cultural production.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)

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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license:

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: authorship, women's cinema and transnational screen cultures
• 1 Early years: pains and joys
• 2 Art, politics and gender: Holland's participation in socialist Poland's screen cultures
• 3 European exilic cinema
• 4 Transatlantic journey/adventure, or the re-phase
• 5 From cinematic metteur en scène to television auteur?
• 6 'Back home' or 'There's no such place as home': post-communist political cinema revisited
• 7 Performing authorship: from celebrity director to celebrity activist
• Conclusion
• Filmography
• References
• Index

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ISBN

• 9781399514699
• 1399514695

Doi

• 10.1515/9781399514699

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