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Andrzej Zulawski

Abject Cinema

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by Henri de Corinth

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Andrzej Zulawski

Keywords

Andrzej Zulawski, director, Poland

Publishing date

2024 (October 17, 2024)

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Eastern European Screen Cultures

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 246 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-90-485-6267-1

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Book Presentation:
Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lw w, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the director's oeuvre through the methodological lens of Julia Kristeva's notions of the abject and the semiotic chora, with the narratives in Zulawski's filmography amounting to an experience of the abject -being not merely the state of affairs among the films' subjects but also of their collective regression to a semiotic non-verbal state divorced from the symbolic verbal-visual language employed by cinema as a whole. It further contextualizes this interpretation with the sociopolitical circumstances from which Zulawski emerged, specifically his Polish homeland occupied by various foreign powers, his emigre status in France, and the influence of the Polish Romantic movement.

About the Author:
Henri de Corinth is a film writer based in Washington DC. An art historian and linguist by training, his writing has appeared in Lo Specchio Scuro, MUBI Notebook, Kinoscope, Senses of Cinema, and We Are The Mutants. Henri de Corinth is a film writer based in Washington DC. An art historian and linguist by training, he has published articles for Senses of Cinema, Lo Specchio Scuro, MUBI Notebook, and Kinoscope. Writings available on https: //henridecorinth.wordpress.com/archive/

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