Boro, L'Île d'Amour : : The Films of Walerian Borowczyk /

Boro, L'Île d'Amour : : The Films of Walerian Borowczyk / / ed. by Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk.

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There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Carels, Edwin,
Croce, Fernando F.,
Giżycki, Marcin,
Kuc, Kamila,
Kurz, Iwona,
Lee, Kevin,
Majmurek, Jakub,
Mikurda, Kuba,
Oleszczyk, Michał,
Owen, Jonathan,
Rabikowska, Marta,
Snazell, James,
Warnell, Phillip,
Wielebska, Kamila,
Wilkins, Budd,
Woynarowski, Jakub,
HerausgeberIn:
Kuc, Kamila,
Mikurda, Kuba,
Oleszczyk, Michał,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (210 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Private Universe
  • CHAPTER 1 Boro: Escape Artist
  • CHAPTER 2 Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera
  • CHAPTER 3 Animated Bodies: A Conversation between
  • CHAPTER 4 Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk’s Post-traumatic Surrealism
  • CHAPTER 5 The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent’s Cinematic Confession
  • CHAPTER 6 Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed
  • CHAPTER 7 Borowczyk’s Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to Behind Convent Walls (1977)
  • CHAPTER 8 Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk’s A Private Collection (1973)
  • CHAPTER 9 The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk’s The Beast (1975)
  • CHAPTER 10 Laugh in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in the Films of Walerian Borowczyk
  • CHAPTER 11 Enjoying Excess A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin (1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Żeromski
  • CHAPTER 12 The Beach, the Bubble, and the Boudoir: The Meeting Spaces of Walerian Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues
  • CHAPTER 13 Sex and the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects
  • CHAPTER 14 Reflecting on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
  • CHAPTER 15 The Perils of Emmanuelle A Conversation between Odie Henderson, Simon Abrams, and Michał Oleszczyk
  • CHAPTER 16 Revisiting Love Rites (1988)
  • Walerian Borowczyk Filmography
  • Index

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