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The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda: Dialogism in <i>Man of Marble, Man of Iron, </i>and <i>Danton</i>

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The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda

Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron, and Danton

Janina Falkowska

256 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-005-2 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (April 1996)


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Andrzej Wajda is considered one of Poland's - many would say the world's - greatest film directors. During the thirty-five years of his activity in film, theatre or television, his work, whether strong or weak, always arouses strong emotions and provokes intense debates in the media. His films deal with historical and political issues concerning Polish character and the nature of political power. 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 the 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. At the same time, she offers a detailed analysis of the historical events leading up to the collapse of the Socialist system in Poland.

Janina Falkowska is Professor in the Film Studies Department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, specializing in East-Central European and Western European cinemas. Her publications include Andrzej Wajda: History, Politics And Nostalgia in Polish Cinema (Berghahn Books 2007), National Cinemas in Postwar East-Central Europe (ed.), and, co-authored with Marek Haltof, The New Polish Cinema (Flicks Books 2003).

Subject: Film and Television Studies
Area: Central/Eastern Europe


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