The Theater Of Andrzej Wajda

Author : Maciej Karpinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521322464

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The Theater of Andrzej Wajda by Maciej Karpinski Pdf

Andrzej Wajda stands as one of the leading film-makers in contemporary European cinema, although his equally important theatrical achievements have remained less well-known. This book provides the first account and critical evaluation of this Polish director's work for the theatre. Maciej Karpinski examines Wajda's theatrical career focusing especially on such milestone productions as his internationally acclaimed adaptations of Dostoyevsky. Through an analysis of Wajda's aesthetic views and resultant productions, the study also reveals the vital link between his art and contemporary Polish culture. Karpinski is in a unique position to present a study of Wajda. Since 1974 he has collaborated with the director on a number of productions including The Affair, The Emigrants, and Nastasya Filippovna. As the most complete study of Wajda in the theatre, this book will enable students and teachers to have a fuller knowledge of this important twentieth-century director. The book also contains a full chronology of his theatrical career as well as photographs from productions.

Author : Zygmunt Hübner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810110229

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Theater & Politics by Zygmunt Hübner Pdf

Hubner (1930-89), a leading Polish director, explains how theater is particularly suitable for political expression, and particularly susceptible to political suppression, because of the powerful direct contact between the spoken work and the audience. He traces the politics in theater from the anci

Author : John Orr,Elżbieta Ostrowska
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364892

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The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda by John Orr,Elżbieta Ostrowska Pdf

Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhattan in pursuit of the American dream. Once hailed as a "wonder borough" of beautiful homes, parks, and universities, the Bronx became -- during the 1960s and 1970s -- a national symbol of urban deterioration. Thriving neighborhoods that had long been home to generations of families dissolved under waves of arson, crime, and housing abandonment, turning blocks of apartment buildings into gutted, graffiti-covered shells and empty, trash-filled lots. In this revealing history of the Bronx, Evelyn Gonzalez describes how the once-infamous New York City borough underwent one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. From its earliest beginnings as a loose cluster of commuter villages to its current status as a densely populated home for New York's growing and increasingly more diverse African American and Hispanic populations, this book shows how the Bronx interacted with and was affected by the rest of New York City as it grew from a small colony on the tip of Manhattan into a sprawling metropolis. This is the story of the clattering of elevated subways and the cacophony of crowded neighborhoods, the heady optimism of industrial progress and the despair of economic recession, and the vibrancy of ethnic cultures and the resilience of local grassroots coalitions crucial to the borough's rejuvenation. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this remarkable community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that it was not racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, or big government that was to blame for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, the decline was inextricably connected to the same kinds of social initiatives, economic transactions, political decisions, and simple human choices that had once been central to the development and vitality of the borough. Although the history of the Bronx is unquestionably a success story, crime, poverty, and substandard housing still afflict the community today. Yet the process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.

Author : Bohdan Drozdowski,Catherine Itzen
Publisher : London : J. Calder
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015005251221

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Twentieth Century Polish Theatre by Bohdan Drozdowski,Catherine Itzen Pdf

Author : Janina Falkowska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1571810056

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The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda by Janina Falkowska Pdf

Controversial, painful, stimulating, and cinematically beautiful, they never fail to fully engage the spectator. This is particularly true for his major political films, which form the basis of this study. Applying Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the author shows how a creative interaction between the image on the screen and the viewer is established through Wajda's films.

Author : Janina Falkowska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845455088

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Andrzej Wajda by Janina Falkowska Pdf

The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world's most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film and art movements. It is the reworking of these different elements by Wajda, as the author shows, which give his films their unique visual and aural qualities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000100390826

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Le Théâtre en Pologne by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grzegorz Niziolek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350039674

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The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust by Grzegorz Niziolek Pdf

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust – Grotowski's Poor Theatre and Kantor's Theatre of Death - but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witness to others' suffering. In the first part, the author examines six decades of Polish theatre shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible or displaced. Particular attention is paid to the various types of distortion and the effect of 'wrong seeing' enacted in the theatre, as well as the traces of affective reception: shock, heightened empathy, indifference. In part two, Niziolek examines a range of theatrical events, including productions by Leon Schiller, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Ondrej Spišák. He considers how these productions confronted the experience of bearing witness and were profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust. The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust reveals how -- by testifying about society's experience of the Holocaust -- theatre has been the setting for fundamental processes taking place within Polish culture as it confronts suppressed traumatic wartime experiences and a collective identity shaped by the past.

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442244726

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Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof Pdf

In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Prószyński made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow. Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupt side of communism. Poland has produced several internationally known films, including Andrzej Wajda’s war trilogy, A Generation (1955), Kanal (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (1958); Roman Polański’s Knife in the Water (1962); and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger (1963). Often performing specific political and cultural duties for their nation, Polish filmmakers were well aware of their role as educators, entertainers, social activists, and political leaders. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema fills the gap in film scholarship, presenting an extensive factual survey of Polish film. Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented. Readers with professional interest in cinema will welcome this new work, which will enhance senior undergraduate or postgraduate courses in film studies.

Author : Ewa Mazierska,Michael Goddard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464680

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Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context by Ewa Mazierska,Michael Goddard Pdf

This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk. The opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, coupled with the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, presents ideal conditions for examiningPolish cinema from a transnational vantage point. Yet not only have studies of Polish cinema remained largely within a national framework but Polish cinema, as well as many other Eastern European cinemas, has been virtually excluded from new research in transnational cinema. Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context addresses this lacuna in film studies, offering extended analysis of this national cinema's global influence. Contributors assess the reception of Polish films in Europe and North America, Polish international coproductions, the presence of Polish performers in foreign films, and the works of subversive émigré auteurs like Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk. The collection presents familiar films and filmmakers in a new and revealing light, while also focusing on lesser-known filmmakers and aspects of Polish cinema. The resulting volume moves the discussion beyond the border of Polish national belonging. Contributors: Peter Hames, Darragh O'Donoghue, Helena Goscilo, Dorota Ostrowska, Charlotte Govaert, Eva Näripea, Izabela Kalinowska, Ewa Mazierska, Alison Smith, Lars Kristensen, Jonathan Owen, Michael Goddard, Robert Murphy, Kamila Kuc, Elzbieta Ostrowska Ewa Mazierska is professor of film studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Michael Goddard is senior lecturer in media at the University of Salford.

Author : Mary Beth Osnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781576078044

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Acting by Mary Beth Osnes Pdf

A groundbreaking, cross-cultural reference work exploring the diversity of expression found in rituals, festivals, and performances, uncovering acting techniques and practices from around the world. Acting: An International Encyclopedia explores the amazing diversity of dramatic expression found in rituals, festivals, and live and filmed performances. Its hundreds of alphabetically arranged, fully referenced entries offer insights into famous players, writers, and directors, as well as notable stage and film productions from around the world and throughout the history of theater, cinema, and television. The book also includes a surprising array of additional topics, including important venues (from Greek amphitheaters to Broadway and Hollywood), acting schools (the Actor's Studio) and companies (the Royal Shakespeare), performance genres (from religious pageants to puppetry), technical terms of the actor's art, and much more. It is a unique resource for exploring the techniques performers use to captivate their audiences, and how those techniques have evolved to meet the demands of performing through Greek masks and layers of Kabuki makeup, in vast halls or tiny theaters, or for the unforgiving eye of the camera.

Author : Carole Fink,Frank Hadler,Tomasz Schramm
Publisher : Leipziger Universitätsverlag
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 3937209565

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1956 by Carole Fink,Frank Hadler,Tomasz Schramm Pdf

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781571812766

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Polish National Cinema by Marek Haltof Pdf

In the years since World War 2, Poland has developed one of Europe's most distinguished film cultures. This is a comprehensive study of Polish cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present.

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136119002

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer) Pdf

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.