There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of the director’s output, focused studies of particular movies, and more personal, impressionistic pieces. Taken together, these contributions comprise a wide-ranging survey that is markedly experimental in character, allowing scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s oeuvre.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Private Universe
Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk
Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist
Kuba Mikurda
Chapter 2. Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera
Marcin Giżycki
Chapter 3. Animated Bodies: A Conversation Between Kuba Mikurda and Jakub Woynarowski
Chapter 4. Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk’s Post-Traumatic Surrealism
Iwona Kurz
Chapter 5. The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent’s Cinematic Confession
Kamila Kuc
Chapter 6. Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed
Fernando F. Croce
Chapter 7. Borowczyk’s Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to Behind Convent Walls (1977)
James Snazell
Chapter 8. Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk’s A Private Collection (1974)
Edwin Carels
Chapter 9. The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk’s The Beast (1975)
Philip Warnell
Chapter 10. Laughter in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in Walerian Borowczyk’s Films
Kamila Wielebska
Chapter 11. Enjoying Excess: A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin (1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Żeromski
Marta Rabikowska
Chapter 12. The Beach, the Bubble and the Boudoir: The Meeting-Spaces of Walerian Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Jonathan Owen
Chapter 13. Sex & the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects
Jakub Majmurek
Chapter 14. Reflecting on The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
Budd Wilkins
Chapter 15. The Perils of Emmanuelle: A Conversation between Simon Abrams, Odie Henderson, and Michał Oleszczyk
Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988)
Kevin Lee
Contributors Biographies
Filmography
About the author
Michał Oleszczyk is a film critic, translator and script consultant based in Warsaw. He teaches film studies at ‘Artes Liberales’ Department at University of Warsaw, as well as script development at Warsaw Film School. He contributes to ‘Cineaste’ and Roger Ebert.com
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