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Roman Polanski after The Pianist

The Man and His Films

Żaneta Jamrozik and Ewa Mazierska

292 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-085-8 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-086-5 eBook Not Yet Published


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“The book is a successful attempt to analyse the late work of one of the most celebrated masters of world cinema. ... The Authors chase new stylistic traits in Polanski’s oeuvre, as well as narrative, visual, and sonic motifs recurring from his earlier works.” • Konrad Klejsa, University Lodz

“[This book] not only constitutes a significant contribution to ‘Polanski studies’, but also offers a number of important insights into the issues of contemporary film production and the discursive frameworks shaping the reception of art.<” • Robert Birkhole, University of Warsaw

Description

Roman Polanski after The Pianist examines Polanski’s later films as a distinct and coherent phase in his career. Situating these works within changing industrial, cultural and political conditions, the book shows how Polanski’s late cinema rethinks genre, sound, work, domestic space and historical memory. Drawing on production studies, sound analysis and theories of authorship and mediation, it explores the formal strategies through which these films construct their cinematic worlds. Engaging contemporary debates on art, morality and authorship, the authors argue for the critical autonomy of artworks in a culture increasingly shaped by biographical scrutiny and moral judgement.

Żaneta Jamrozik is a PhD student at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston. She holds a Masters in both Film and Theatre Studies and is currently working on dissertation on Eminem’s music videos. Her publications include ‘How to be an actress (in Poland): The figure of the actress in Wojciech Jerzy Has’s How to be Loved (1962)’ (in Intellect journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2013) and ' Acting as Value ' in Work in Cinema (ed. by Ewa Mazierska, Palgrave 2013).

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Honorary Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She has published over thirty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970–2020: Cultural History (Routledge, 2021) and Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema (Berghahn, 2017) and Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (I. B. Tauris, 2007). She is the principal editor of Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Her work has been translated into over 20 languages.

Subject: Film and Television Studies


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