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No end in sight : Polish cinema in the late socialist period /
"Anna Krakus details how conceptions of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish artistic works. She further demonstrates how film and literature played a major role in shaping political consciousness during this highly charged era. Despite being controlled by an authoritarian state an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Anna Krakus details how conceptions of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish artistic works. She further demonstrates how film and literature played a major role in shaping political consciousness during this highly charged era. Despite being controlled by an authoritarian state and a doctrine that demanded ideological conformity, artists were still able to portray the unsettled nature of the political and psychological climate of the period and an undetermined future. In analyzing films by Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Wojciech Has, and Tadeusz Konwicki, Krakus identifies their shared penchant to defer or completely eschew narrative closure, whether in plot, theme, or style. Krakus calls this artistic tendency 'aesthetic unfinalizability.' As she reveals, aesthetic unfinalizability was far more than an occasional artistic preference or a passing trend; it was a radical political act. The obsession with historical teleology saturated Polish public life during socialism to such a degree that instances of nonclosure or ambivalent endings emerged as polemical responses to an official ideology of inevitable utopian endings"--Back cover |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822986034 0822986035 |