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BL
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840024
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Krakus, Anna
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No end in sight : : Polish cinema in the late socialist period /\ Anna Krakus.
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| Publication Statement
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Pittsburgh :: University of Pittsburgh Press,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
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1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0822986035
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: 9780822986034
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0822964619
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9780822964612
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. Aesthetic unfinalizability : narrative irresolution at a time of great conclusions -- Interlude. Wajda's secret box -- Final cut : poiesis and production history -- Life keeps ending : immortality and resurrections -- Interlude. Rebuilding the capital -- "But it is our country" : building a nation -- Interlude a sweatshop romance -- It's about time : plots about aimless movement -- Postlude. After forever : Polish cinema after "the end."
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"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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Motion pictures-- Political aspects-- Poland-- 20th century.
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Motion pictures-- Poland-- History-- 20th century.
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ART / General
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Motion pictures-- Political aspects.
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Motion pictures.
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Poland.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.4309438
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PN1993.5.P7K73 2018eb
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| Parallel Title
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Polish cinema in the late socialist period
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