Kieślowski's Decalogue : broken commandments, shattered lives /

"Written and produced under martial law in 1980's Communist Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue presents a collective portrait of a demoralized nation populated by gloomy individualists who respond to other people with antagonism or indifference. Feeling betrayed by a history of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sicker, Philip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2025]
Series:Film cultures ; v. 14.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language and silence in Decalogue one
  • The ruptured world of Decalogue two
  • Taking the long way home : Decalogue three
  • The death of authority in Decalogue four
  • Mistakes of a huge machine : murder and injustice in Decalogue five
  • Disrupting the gaze in Decalogue six
  • Fractured fairy tales : stolen childhood in Decalogue seven
  • Dislocated histories : bearing witness in Decalogue eight
  • Divine possession : metaphysical covetousness in Decalogue nine
  • A broken series : Decalogue ten.