Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface 1 Documenting the Unrepresented World 2 Film-Essays: Kieslowski and Polish Cinema in the 1970s and During the Solidarity Period i Pedestrian Subway: A Short Film About Marriage ii Personnel: Art and Politics iii The Scar: Managers and Their Dilemmas iv The Calm: Life as It Is v Camera Buff: Meditations on Film-making vi Short Working Day: Mechanisms of Power 3 Choices, Chances and Politics i Blind Chance: Variations on Fate ii No End: Requiem for Solidarity 4 Entomological Observations and Metaphysics in Decalogue 5 The Double Life of Kieslowski: European Art Film and the Polish Context i The Double Life of Veronique: Doppelgangers and Puppeteers ii The Three Colours Trilogy: The Long Films About Love

About the Author

Marek Haltof is Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. He is the author of several books in English and Polish, including Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide (1996) and Polish National Cinema (2002).

Reviews

Concise and direct.
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