{"product_id":"refocus-the-films-of-agnieszka-holland-9781399514675","title":"Refocus: The Films of Agnieszka Holland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Films of Agnieszka Holland\u003c\/i\u003e is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich, original oeuvre, which ranges from Holocaust dramas such as \u003ci\u003eEuropa, Europa \u003c\/i\u003e(1990) to episodes of the HBO series \u003ci\u003eThe Wire.\u003c\/i\u003e In examining the multifaceted nature of Holland's authorship, the study situates her work in the context of art, popular, national, European, Hollywood, transnational, women's, and queer cinema, as well as global television projects. Her colourful public persona oscillates among \u003ci\u003eauteur\u003c\/i\u003e, celebrity director, and political activist in an extraordinary professional trajectory, which started in the Eastern Bloc, continued in Western Europe and North America, then backtracked to a unified Europe. That zigzagged route conveys the unique nature of Holland's career while epitomising the transformations of post-Cold War cultural production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElżbieta Ostrowska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Audiovisual Media at the University of L?dź, Poland. Her publications include Women in Polish Cinema, co-authored with Ewa Mazierska (2006), the co-edited volumes The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Between Pain and Pleasure (with Ewa Mazierska and Matilda Mroz) and The Cinema of Roman Polanski. Dark Spaces of the World. Her articles about film in have appeared in publications such as Slavic Review, Studies in European Cinema and Feminist Encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903706730770,"sku":"9781399514675","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c04a7227-3b57-4cdd-8c77-216f6bccc1fe.jpg?v=1738504271","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/refocus-the-films-of-agnieszka-holland-9781399514675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}