No end in sight : Polish cinema in the late socialist period /

"Anna Krakus details how conceptions of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish artistic works. She further demonstrates how film and literature played a major role in shaping political consciousness during this highly charged era. Despite being controlled by an authoritarian state an...

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Main Author: Krakus, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Aesthetic unfinalizability : narrative irresolution at a time of great conclusions
  • Interlude. Wajda's secret box
  • Final cut : poiesis and production history
  • Life keeps ending : immortality and resurrections
  • Interlude. Rebuilding the capital
  • "But it is our country" : building a nation
  • Interlude a sweatshop romance
  • It's about time : plots about aimless movement
  • Postlude. After forever : Polish cinema after "the end."