Download or read book Masters of Cinema Roman Polanski written by David Ehrenstein and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today.
Download or read book The cinema of Roman Polanski written by Ivan Butler and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by James Morrison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he 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 why we so rarely see it. The range of Polanski's filmmaking challenges traditional divisions between high and low culture. For example, The Ninth Gate is a brash pastiche of the horror genre, while The Pianist is an Academy Award-winner about the Holocaust. Dubbing Polanski a relentless critic of modernity, Morrison concludes that his career is representative of the fissures, victories, and rehabilitations of the last fifty years of international cinema. A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James Naremore
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Julia Ain-Krupa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an examination of the films of Roman Polanski, focusing on the impact that his life as an exile has had upon his work. Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile is a revealing look at this acclaimed filmmaker whose life in exile seems to have made his films all the more personal and powerful. Written by a film critic, this insightful book follows Polanski's story from his childhood in a World War II Jewish ghetto to his early films in Poland; from his American breakout, Rosemary's Baby, to his wife's murder by the Manson family; from the spectacular return of Chinatown, to his exile as a convicted sex criminal, to the monumental career peak, The Pianist. The Holocaust, the oppression of communism, the shattering of the swinging 60s, the decadence of Hollywood, the life of a fugitive—Polanski experienced all of these firsthand, and understanding those experiences provides a fascinating pathway through his work.
Download or read book Roman written by Roman Polanski and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1984 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally back in print, this is the long-forgotten and long out-of-print memoir of a genius storyteller--as great as his greatest movie. The engrossing autobiography is released on the 20th anniversary of the original publication.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Jordan R. Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between his 1962 debut A Knife in the Water and the 1968 blockbuster Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski directed three movies—Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, and Dance of the Vampires (a.k.a. The Fearless Vampire Killers)—that remain a crucial but too often overlooked piece of his filmography. In this remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the director's early output, Jordan Young gives us a revealing look at Polanski at work in the years before his rise to global renown. Drawing on new research and interviews with principals on both sides of the camera—including direct access to the director—Young shares eye-opening, freshly unearthed details. We witness Polanski making movies under some of the worst possible conditions, contending with financing nightmares (both Repulsion and Cul-de-Sac were underwritten by exploitation-film peddlers), poisonous enmities amongst cast and crew, and collaborators who, in the director's words, "did their best to make me feel like a monster." Polanski the provocateur is in full view here, placing actors in physical peril and deploying such unusual methods as slaughtering chickens to provide real blood for a death scene. While never shying away from unflattering or shocking details, Young still provides a nuanced and measured portrait of his subject—a rare look at a controversial artist in the act of creation.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Daniel Bird and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polanski, a world-famous BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning director and Oscar nominee, has made headlines both for his fabulous films, including 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Macbeth', 'Chinatown' and 'The Ninth Gate', and his shocking personal life, which included the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by Charlie Manson and later being accused of drugging and raping an underage girl. This little book provides an introduction to the man and the director, reviews and analyses each of his movies, and includes a handy multi-media reference section.
Download or read book Roman Polanski A Retrospective written by James Greenberg and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Roman Polanski's career from his early work such as 'Knife in the Water', through to his latest masterpiece, 'Carnage'.
Download or read book Roman by Polanski written by Roman Polanski and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film director describes his youth in Nazi Poland, his film directing career, the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, his arrest on a morals charge, his new acting career, and his films
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Roman Polanski and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the controversial European filmmaker of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Virginia Wright Wexman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polanski written by Christopher Sandford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Polanski, an Oscar-winning film director, Holocaust survivor, and exile.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Jacques Belmans and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cinema of Roman Polanski written by John Orr and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Polanski is one of the great maverick figures of world cinema, with a long career starting in Poland with his short films of the 1950s and running through to the present with Oliver Twist. This collection highlights the bold and dazzling diversity of his work as well as recurrent themes and obsessions.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polanski is one of the most talented and distinguished of modern film makers. A well-informed cultural traveller, interested in the position of the outsider, he is hard to pigeonhole: he moves easily between mass audience and art-house tastes, between settings and genres; his films, including 'Two Men and a Wardrobe', 'Cul de Sac', 'Rosemary?s Baby', 'The Pianist' and 'Oliver Twist', represent diverse characters and cinematic influences. Like a magpie, he?s interested in everything he encounters, but then easily discards his treasures and moves onward. Covering all Polanski?s films as director, this welcome book addresses the eclecticism, ambiguity and paradoxes of his cinema, while seeking out the common elements in his films. Ewa Mazierska examines the autobiographical effect of Polanski?s films, his characters and diverse narratives, and the place of absurdism, surrealism and the ?double life? of things in his cinema. She looks into the function of music, of religion, power, patriarchy and racism in the films, as well as Polanski?s literary adaptations and his use and subversion of film genres. Herself a Polish emigre, she uncovers Polanski's Polish roots and the extent of their influence on the cinema of this mercurial film maker, at large in the world.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Denis Meikle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Polanski is a towering figure in modern cinema. He has done it all—psychological thrillers such as Killer in the Water and Cul-de-sac; horror films such as Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby; film noir as in Chinatown; the literary classics like Tess; and even comedy in The Fearless Vampire Killers. In this timely retrospective of Polanski’s career, film historian and critic Denis Meikle draws together the strands of a complex, sometimes contradictory career. Meikle looks at how Polanski’s troubled life has informed his filmmaking and analyzes his unique skills as a director, skills that have allowed him to tackle such diverse themes and genres with unerring success.
Download or read book Roman Polanski written by Stefano Rulli and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
