ReFocus: The Films of Agnieszka Holland

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Elzbieta Ostrowska, Poland) Ostrowska, Elzbieta (Associate Professor, University of Lodz

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The 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReFocus: The International Directors Series
Antal sidor312
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399514682
UtmärkelserCommended for Janovics Centre Award: Special Mention 2025

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: authorship, women’s cinema, and transnational screen culturesChapter One: Early years: pains and joysChapter Two: Art, politics, and gender: Holland’s participation in socialist Poland’s screen culturesChapter Three: European exilic cinemaChapter Four: Transatlantic journey/adventure, or the re-phaseChapter Five: From cinematic metteur en scène to television auteur?Chapter Six: ‘Back home’ or ‘There’s no such place as home’: postcommunist political cinema revisitedChapter Seven: Performing authorship: from celebrity director to celebrity activistConclusionFilmographyBibliography

"With more than 40 feature films to her name – and counting –　film director Agnieszka Holland may be the most prolific female filmmaker in history today. Elżbieta Ostrowska weaves together the multiple strands of this illustrious career in an absorbing narrative that reveals a persistency of vision in the name of an unobstructed creativity. From the studio system of communist Poland to Hollywood's production machine to a variety of European discursive agendas, Holland's creative and public persona emerges all over again -- unscathed, and with renewed vigor and ingenuity against the odds of adverse industrial, critical and nationalist discourses. A fascinating case study of a nomadic pioneer of transnational filmmaking."