03191nam 22004455 450 991087080090332120240826113231.09781399514699139951469510.1515/9781399514699(CKB)32721299800041(DE-B1597)688525(DE-B1597)9781399514699(EXLCZ)993272129980004120240826h20242024 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReFocus: The Films of Agnieszka Holland Transnational Nomadism /Elzbieta Ostrowska1st ed.Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]20241 online resource (312 p.) 50 black and white illustrationsReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS9781399514675 1399514679 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: authorship, women's cinema and transnational screen cultures -- 1 Early years: pains and joys -- 2 Art, politics and gender: Holland's participation in socialist Poland's screen cultures -- 3 European exilic cinema -- 4 Transatlantic journey/adventure, or the re-phase -- 5 From cinematic metteur en scène to television auteur? -- 6 'Back home' or 'There's no such place as home': post-communist political cinema revisited -- 7 Performing authorship: from celebrity director to celebrity activist -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- References -- IndexThe Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich, original oeuvre, which ranges from Holocaust dramas such as Europa, Europa (1990) to episodes of the HBO series The Wire. In examining the multifaceted nature of Holland's authorship, the study situates her work in the context of art, popular, national, European, Hollywood, transnational, women's, and queer cinema, as well as global television projects. Her colourful public persona oscillates among auteur, celebrity director, and political activist in an extraordinary professional trajectory, which started in the Eastern Bloc, continued in Western Europe and North America, then backtracked to a unified Europe. That zigzagged route conveys the unique nature of Holland's career while epitomising the transformations of post-Cold War cultural production.PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)bisacshPERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts).791.4302/33092Ostrowska Elzbieta, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1240239DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910870800903321ReFocus: The Films of Agnieszka Holland4173789UNINA