Published 2011-07-01
Keywords
- violence,
- amorality,
- music,
- ethics,
- aesthetics
- film genres,
- health/sickness ...More
Abstract
This text argues that the evaluation of Polanski's best films must resist the temptation to simply reduce his work to a biography of the director. Polanski's cinema returns to the classic ambition to tell stories in a wide range of genres without shying away from the typically modern realm of violence, as a condition of every genuinely moral conquest. The synecdoche of Polanski's head, as it appears in The Tenant, would be the resource that the director employs in order to maintain an imaginary conversation about human nature and artistic creation.References
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CRONIN, Paul (coord.) (2005). Roman Polanski: Interviews. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
ORR, John; OSTROWSKA, Elzbieta (eds.) (2005). The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World. Harrow: Wallflower Press.
POLANSKI, Roman (2003). Roman By Polanski. Nueva York: Pan Books.
SANDFORD, Christopher (2009). Polanski, trad. de R. Valero. Madrid: T & B Editores.
STEINER, George (2003). Lenguaje y silencio. Ensayos sobre la literatura, el lenguaje y lo inhumano, trad. de M. Ultorio. Barcelona: Degisa.