Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski
ISBN-10
0252032055
ISBN-13
9780252032059
Series
Roman Polanski
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2007-07-02
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
James Morrison

Description

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's Roman Polanski offers one of the most comprehensive and critically engaged treatments ever written on Polanski's work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to the present, the book provides commentary on all the major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. By locating Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, Morrison argues that the director is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete--what is out in the open--and in why it is so rarely seen. A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James Naremore

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