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Munk's Eroica (Classics of Cinema)

By Marek Hendrykowski

Munk's Eroica (Classics of Cinema) Books

Munk's Eroica (Classics of Cinema)

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Although more than fifty years have passed since its making, Andrzej Munk's Eroica has not ceased to fascinate researchers of Polish cinema. We continue to return to Eroica in spite of the fact that half a century of Polish history has taken its toll and the great majority of works to come out of the Polish Film School - with the exception of a few - today, well and truly belong to the past. This observation in no way concerns Munk's masterpiece, which with the passing of the years has retained its vitality and sense of deep reflection. Eroica continues to pass the test of unrelenting time both thanks to its manifest artistic values and its unusually open and bold concept of the artist's critical eye sustaining a dialogue with his country's social history.

The critical eye therefore is the most important part of the film. The eye that penetrates and weaves its way through. It is this critical, thoughtful eye casting back on a difficult past that it carries within and, at the same time, reveals to viewers of Eroica.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Filmography; Foreword; 1. Progeny of the Polish October; 2. The Genesis of Eroica; 3. Literary Origins; 4. The Screenplay; 5. The Moment of Freedom; 6. Eroica's New Language; 7. The Obverse of "Kanal"; 8. Dzidzius as Dissembler; 9. The Composition of Eroica; 10.'For me there will always be a prison camp'; 11. Construction of Time and Space; 12. Keeping One's Head in the Somosierra Mountain Pass; 13. The Third Novella "Con bravura"; 14. Eroica as a Genre; 15. The Reception of Eroica; 16. Munk as Precursor; 17. Eroica's Language of Music; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
146
Release Date:
2011-07-01
Publication Date:
2011-07-01
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
8323222916
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