Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski''s ''Decalogue''
ISBN: 9780823267125
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Film and Media Studies; Literature;

A multi- and interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing ethical, political and aesthetic questions raised in the ten-film cycle Decalogue (1989) by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski.


BadowskaEva:

Eva Badowska is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Her publications include articles on Victorian fiction (in PMLA and Victorian Literature and Culture), feminist theory (in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature), psychoanalytic theory (in The Psychoanalytic Review) and Polish poetry (in Parnassus: Poetry in Review). She is now working on a book entitled Kieslowski in Theory and History.ParmeggianiFrancesca:

Francesca Parmeggiani is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Her research focuses on contemporary Italy, women's writing, and cinema. She is the author of Lo spessore della letteratura (Longo, 2007), a study of the fictional adaptations of scripture by Italian writers in the 1960s and 1970s, and the co-editor of Forme, volti e linguaggi della violenza nella cultura italiana (Edibom, 2012), an essay collection on the representation of violence in Italian culture. Her articles have appeared in Annali d'Italianistica, Cahiers d'études italiennes, Italica, Italianistica, and Romance Languages, among other venues.

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