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Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kie?lowski died unexpectedly in March 1996 at precisely the moment he had reached the height of his career and gained a global audience for his work with the Three Colors trilogy (1993–94). Since his death he has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time, elevated to the elite of world cinema alongside Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini, Yasujiro Ozu, Max Ophüls, and Andrei Tarkovsky. In After Kie?lowski, leading contributors diverge from the typical analysis of Kie?lowski’s work to focus on his legacy in films made after his death, including those based on his scripts and ideas and those made entirely by other filmmakers. Kie?lowski’s rich legacy is rooted in not only a very significant body of early work made before his breakthrough films but another trilogy of films that he had been working on prior to his death, several of which have gone on to be produced. Furthermore, actors and assistant directors involved with Kie?lowski also made films that develop his earlier, incomplete projects or that derive thematically and stylistically from his work. After Kie?lowski considers Kie?lowski’s legacy from three broad perspectives—the Polish, the European, and the global. Contributors trace his direct influence on filmmakers in Poland and Europe, including Jerzy Stuhr, Krzysztof Zanussi, Emmanel Finkiel, Julie Bertucelli, and Tom Tykwer, as well as points of thematic coincidence between his work and that of Jean-Luc Godard, P. T. Anderson, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, and Paul Haggis. This collection also traces the reemergence of Kie?lowski’s unique visual signature in films by Ridley Scott, Santosh Sivan, John Sayles, and Julian Schnabel, and his highly original use of television serial-narrative form that is echoed in at least two major American television series, HBO’s Six Feet Under and ABC’s Lost. Examining Kie?lowski’s legacy is a way of thinking both about the unique features of Kie?lowski’s work and about issues that are now at the heart of contemporary filmmaking. Film scholars and students will appreciate this groundbreaking volume.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright , Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. Part I: The Polish Legacy
  2. pp. 17-80
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  1. 1. Still Alive: Kieślowski's Influence on Post-Communist Polish Cinema
  2. pp. 19-33
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  1. 2. Living On: From Kieślowski to Zanussi
  2. pp. 34-48
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  1. 3. Turning Director: Jerzy Stuhr Does Kieślowski
  2. pp. 49-65
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  1. 4. Form Is the Key, and Lessons in Kieślowski: An Interview with Jerzy Stuhr
  2. pp. 66-80
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  1. Part II: The European Legacy
  2. pp. 81-146
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  1. 5. After Kieślowski: Voyages in European Cinema
  2. pp. 83-98
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  1. 6. Social Sense: KrzysztofKieślowski and Michael Haneke
  2. pp. 99-112
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  1. 7. Just Gaming? Kieślowski's Blind Chance, Tykwer's Run Lola Run,and a Note on Heaven
  2. pp. 113-126
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  1. 8. The Picture of Marriage: Godard's Contempt and Kieślowski's White
  2. pp. 127-146
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  1. Part III. The Global Legacy
  2. pp. 147-225
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  1. 9. Kieślowski's Visual Legacy
  2. pp. 149-164
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  1. 10. Kieślowski Crosses the Atlantic
  2. pp. 165-185
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  1. 11. Kieślowski and Kiarostami: A Metaphysical Cinema
  2. pp. 186-201
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  1. 12. The Decalogue and the Remaking of American Television
  2. pp. 202-225
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 227-229
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  1. Index
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  1. Back Cover
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