THE CINEMA OF ANDRZEJ WAJDA
The Art of Irony and Defence
Edited by John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska
Preface by Andrzej Wajda




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Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Cinema: Past and Present by Andrzej Wajda
Preface: The Importance of Andrzej Wajda

1 At the Crossroads: Irony and Defiance in the Films of Andrzej Wajda by John Orr
2 Wajda’s Imagination of Disaster: War Trauma, Surrealism and Kitsch by Paul Coates
3 ‘He Speaks To Us’: The Author in Everything For Sale, Man of Marble and Pan Tadeusz by Tadeusz Lubelski
4 Dangerous Liaisons: Wajda’s Discourse of Sex, Love and Nation by Elzbieta Ostrowska
5 Changing Meanings of Home and Exile: From Ashes and Diamonds to Pan Tadeusz by Izabela Kalinowska
6 Wajda’s Filmic Representation of Polish-Jewish Relations by Michael Stevenson
7 Remembering and Deconstructing: The Historical Flashback in Man of Marble and Man of Iron by Maureen Turim
8 ‘Visual Eloquence’ and Documentary Form: Meeting Man of Marble in Nowa Huta by Bjrn Srenssen
9 Catastrophic Spectacles: Historical Trauma and the Masculine Subject in Lotna by Christopher J. Caes
10 Wajda, Grotowski and Mickiewicz: The Dialectics of Apotheosis and Derision by Michael Goddard
11 Andrzej Wajda’s Vision of ‘The Promised Land’ by Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska
12 As the Years Pass, As the Days Pass... – An Ironic Epic by Tomasz Klys
13 ‘Ojczyzno Moja’: Adapting Pan Tadeusz by Lisa Di Bartolomeo

Filmography
Bibliography
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