Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and
one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad.
This is the first monograph, written in English, to be devoted to
his cinema. It covers Skolimowski's career from his early successes
in Poland, such as Identification Marks: None and Barrier, through
his emigre films, Deep End, Moonlighting and The Lightship, to his
return to Poland where, in 2008, he made the internationally
acclaimed Four Nights with Anna.
Ewa Mazierska addresses the main features of Skolimowski's
films, such as their affinity to autobiographism and surrealism,
while discussing their characters, narratives, visual style,
soundtracks, and the uses of literature. She draws on a wide range
of cinematic and literary texts, situating Skolimowski's work
within the context of Polish and world cinema, and drawing
parallels between his work and that of two directors, with whom he
tends to be compared, Roman Pola ski and Jean-Luc Godard.
'Ewa Mazierska's monograph is the first book-length study of his
Jerzy Skolimowski's] work, nearly half a century after his
emergence as a one-man Polish New Wave ... Mazierska eschews a
chronological survey in favour of five themed essays ... this
approach allows her to make connections between outwardly disparate
films and mount a convincing challenge to the received opinion that
there are fundamental differences between his Polish and non-Polish
output ... this is an important, desperately overdue book.' Sight
& Sound
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Contemporary Cinema, Department
of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications
include Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower
Press, 2006), Dreams and Diaries: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti
(Wallflower Press, 2004) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern
Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003), all co-authored with
Laura Rascaroli and Women in Polish Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2006),
co-authored with El bieta Ostrowska."
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