Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema
Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, 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.
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Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema
Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, 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.
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Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema

Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema

by Henri de Corinth
Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema
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Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema

Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema

by Henri de Corinth

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Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789048562671
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/17/2024
Series: Eastern European Screen Cultures , #7
Edition description: 1
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Landscapes of Affect, Chapter 1: Kristeva and Zulawski, Chapter 2: Zulawski and Ideology, Chapter 3: The Maternal, Chapter 4: Landscapes of Affect, Part II: Abject Cinema, Chapter 5: Children Are An Ism, Chapter 6: Coenesthesia, Chapter 7: Borders, Chapter 8: Performance, Chapter 9: Loss of Subjecthood, Chapter 10: Returning to the Womb, Chapter 11: The Image of Film Violence, Chapter 12: The Sight of a Corpse, Part III: Unfathomable, Darkness - A Conclusion, Index.
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