The Films of Agnieszka Holland

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de Elżbieta Ostrowska

Type: Studies
Sujet: Director > Agnieszka Holland
Mots Clés: Agnieszka Holland, director, Poland
Année d'édition: 2024 (July 01, 2024)
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Langue: anglais

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Hardcover • 312 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

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978-1-3995-1467-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Examines Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s films and television works from the perspective of transnational screen cultures

• First anglophone monograph about Agnieszka Holland’s versatile work
• Analyses transnational women’s cinema
• Reassess women’s cinema in a state-socialist context
• Combines textual analysis, production cultures, and reception studies
• Explores multitude of authorship discourses

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.

Revue de Presse:
"With more than 40 feature films to her name – and counting –　film director Agnieszka Holland may be the most prolific female filmmaker in history today. Elżbieta Ostrowska weaves together the multiple strands of this illustrious career in an absorbing narrative that reveals a persistency of vision in the name of an unobstructed creativity. From the studio system of communist Poland to Hollywood's production machine to a variety of European discursive agendas, Holland's creative and public persona emerges all over again -- unscathed, and with renewed vigor and ingenuity against the odds of adverse industrial, critical and nationalist discourses. A fascinating case study of a nomadic pioneer of transnational filmmaking."
– Dina Iordanova, Emeritus Professor in Global Cinema, University of St Andrews, Scotland

"Combining meticulous research, critical acumen, and　 theoretical sophistication, Ostrowska　 judiciously tracks the ways in which the concerns of ethics, politics, identity, gender and spirituality have criss-crossed　 Holland’s provocative oeuvre. Particularly impressive is her tenacious grasp of its Protean　 shifts between auteurism, national and transnational cinema, Hollywood, and ‘women’s cinema’"
– Paul Coates, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, Western University, Canada

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