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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Polanski’s Fourth Wall Aesthetic
Mark Cousins

1 Polanski: The Art of Perceiving
John Orr
2 Polanski’s Existential Body – as Somebody, Nobody and Anybody
Helena Goscilo
3 Power and the Visual Semantics of Polanski’s Films
Herbert J. Eagle
4 Polanski and the Horror from Within
Tony McKibbin
5 Knife in the Water: Polanski’s Nomadic Discourse Begins
Elzibieta Ostrowska
6 Beauty and the Beast: Desire and its Double in Repulsion
Lucy Fischer
7 Cul-de-Sac in Context: Absurd Authorship and Sexuality
Paul Coates
8 Chinatown: Politics as Perspective, Perspective as Politics
Dana Polan
9 Into the Mouth of Madness: The Tenant
Maximilian Le Cain
10 Polanski’s Iconoclastic Journeys in Time: When Angels Fall and Bitter Moon
Izabela Kalinowska
11 The Pianist and its Contexts: Polanski’s Narration of Holocaust Evasion and Survival
Michael Stevenson

Filmography
Bibliography
Index