Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Arts University Bournemouth
Book title
El Cine de Andrzej Munk: el Caracter Nacional y el Individuo
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Semana de cine experimental de Madrid
ISBN of book
9788461276639
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
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Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Of all the filmmakers of the so-called Polish School, Andrzej Munk probably strived the most in the search for the reality of the individual. This search was present across all the arts in Central/Eastern Europe during last century’s Soviet style totalitarian regimes as a reaction to the enforced collective ideology, and the imposition of that bizarrely termed ‘realist’ aesthetics, socialist realism. This monograph analyses, from this perspective, Munk’s oeuvre, key to the understanding of the complexities of post-WWII Central/Eastern European cinema and society, and traces the influence he had in other film movements like the Czechoslovak and Hungarian New Waves.
