Andrzej Zulawski (1940–2016) was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature films. Andrzej Zulawski: Abject Cinema interprets the director’s oeuvre through the methodological lens of Julia Kristeva’s notions of the abject and the semiotic chora, with the narratives in Zulawski’s filmography amounting to an experience of the abject -being not merely the state of affairs among the films’ subjects but also of their collective regression to a semiotic non-verbal state divorced from the symbolic verbal-visual language employed by cinema as a whole. It further contextualizes this interpretation with the sociopolitical circumstances from which Zulawski emerged, specifically his Polish homeland occupied by various foreign powers, his emigre status in France, and the influence of the Polish Romantic movement.
By:
Henri de Corinth
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781041175575
ISBN 10: 1041175574
Series: Eastern European Screen Cultures
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: Landscapes of Affect, Chapter 1: Kristeva and Zulawski, Chapter 2: Zulawski and Ideology, Chapter 3: The Maternal, Chapter 4: Landscapes of Affect, Part II: Abject Cinema, Chapter 5: Children Are An Ism, Chapter 6: Coenesthesia, Chapter 7: Borders, Chapter 8: Performance, Chapter 9: Loss of Subjecthood, Chapter 10: Returning to the Womb, Chapter 11: The Image of Film Violence, Chapter 12: The Sight of a Corpse, Part III: Unfathomable, Darkness - A Conclusion, Index.
Henri de Corinth is a film writer based in Washington DC. An art historian and linguist by training, his writing has appeared in Lo Specchio Scuro, MUBI Notebook, Kinoscope, Senses of Cinema, and We Are The Mutants.
