Boro, L'Île d'Amour

The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
Herausgeber: Kuc, Kamila; Oleszczyk, Micha¿; Mikurda, Kuba

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Produktbeschreibung

An introduction and guide to the complex work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk. Allows scholars to gain access to previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk's body of work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781789208184
• ISBN-10: 1789208181
• Artikelnr.: 58454664

Autorenporträt

Kamila Kuc is a multimedia artist, curator and writer. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally: Whitechapel Gallery, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Anthology Film Archives New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on experimental media, including Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press) and the co-founder, with Sam Jury, of Disasters of Peace - a creative initiative that encompasses research, writing, making and curating.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Private Universe
Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michal Oleszczyk
Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist
Kuba Mikurda
Chapter 2. Borowczyk's Kunstkamera
Marcin Gizycki
Chapter 3. Animated Bodies: A Conversation Between Kuba Mikurda and Jakub
Woynarowski
Chapter 4. Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk's Post-Traumatic Surrealism
Iwona Kurz
Chapter 5. The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent's
Cinematic Confession
Kamila Kuc
Chapter 6. Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed
Fernando F. Croce
Chapter 7. Borowczyk's Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to
Behind Convent Walls (1977)
James Snazell
Chapter 8. Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk's A Private Collection (1974)
Edwin Carels
Chapter 9. The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk's The Beast (1975)
Philip Warnell
Chapter 10. Laughter in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in Walerian
Borowczyk's Films
Kamila Wielebska
Chapter 11. Enjoying Excess: A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin
(1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Zeromski
Marta Rabikowska
Chapter 12. The Beach, the Bubble and the Boudoir: The Meeting-Spaces of
Walerian Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Jonathan Owen
Chapter 13. Sex & the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects
Jakub Majmurek
Chapter 14. Reflecting on The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss
Osbourne (1981)
Budd Wilkins
Chapter 15. The Perils of Emmanuelle: A Conversation between Simon Abrams,
Odie Henderson, and Michal Oleszczyk
Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988)
Kevin Lee
Contributors Biographies
Filmography