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Call No: 81 BOR BOR
Edition: 2015
Place: New York; London
Publisher: Berghahn Books
PhysDes: 212 p. ; illus. ; 23cm
Subject: BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN; GOTO L'ILE D'AMOUR (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1968); BLANCHE (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1971); BETE, LA (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1975)
Notes: 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. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781782387015
Contents: CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Private Universe -- Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michal Oleszczyk Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist -- Kuba Mikurda Chapter 2. Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera -- Marcin Gizycki 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 Zeromski -- 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 Michal Oleszczyk Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988) -- Kevin Lee Contributors Biographies Filmography

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN
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Call No: 735.2 (4):749.0 (4) TOH
Author: Tohill, Cathal; Tombs, Pete
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: 272 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
Subject: HORROR FILMS. GERMANY; HORROR FILMS. ITALY; HORROR FILMS. FRANCE; HORROR FILMS. SPAIN; EXPLOITATION FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; FRANCO, JESUS [JESS]; LARRAZ, JOSE; BENAZERAF, JOSE; BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN; ROLLIN, JEAN; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN; NECRONOMICON - GETRAUMTE SUNDEN (GG/FR, Jesus Franco, 1968); FASCINATION (FR, Jean Rollin, 1979); VAMPYRES (UK, Jose Larraz, 1974); UN EPAIS MANTEAU DE SANG (FR/US, Jose Benazeraf, 1967); CONTES IMMORAUX (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1974); JEU AVEC LE FEU, LE (IT, FR, Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1975)
Summary: 'From sexy thrillers to pulp surrealism, from decadent erotica to blood-soaker vampire epics, nothing could go too far'. Not so much a movie guide as an insightful critical overview of European horror/exploitation/sex films of the 1950s-1980s, this book is organised into a sequence of essays proceeding from general themes (the history of horrific art, the surgical metaphor), to regional styles (Italian, German, French, Spanish), to individual directors (Jesus Franco, Jean Rollin, José Larraz, José Bénazéraf, Walerian Borowczyk, Alain Robbe-Grillet), and provides a consice history covering this unique era. The book includes many photos, original poster art, and a useful appendix covering miscellaneous actors and directors from the genre.
Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 269
ISBN: 031213519X

Author: Williams, Ross
PhysDes: Article Review
Subject: ANTONIO DAS MORTES (BL, Glauber Rocha, 1969); ROCHA, GLAUBER; QUE LA BETE MEURE (FR/IT, Claude Chabrol, 1969); CHABROL, CLAUDE; MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD (FR, Eric Rohmer, 1969); ROHMER, ERIC; SHONEN (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1969); OSHIMA, NAGISA; WSZYSTKO NA SPRZEDAZ (PL, Andrzej Wajda, 1968); WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; GOTO L'ILE D'AMOUR (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1968); BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; SPRY, ROBIN; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); WEXLER, HASKELL
Summary: Review of the highlights of the 1970 Melbourne Film Festival. To be continued in M.F.B. No. 14.

Call No: 81 BOR STR
Author: Strong, Simon
Edition: 2015
Place: [Collingwood, Victoria]
Publisher: The LedaTape Organisation
PhysDes: 134 pages ; illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24cm
Subject: BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN; BETE, LA (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1975); GOTO L'ILE D'AMOUR (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1968); BLANCHE (FR, Walerian Borowczyk, 1971); DZIEJE GRZECHU (PL, Walerian Borowczyk, 1975); EMMANUELLE (FR, Just Jaeckin, 1974); BESTIALITY; BELLE ET LA BETE, LA (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1946); Dauman, Anatole
Notes: Walerian Borowczyk was far and away the classiest of sleazy film-makers, and the sleaziest of the classy ones. Starting as an animator and director of visually rich kafkaesque fantasies (Blanche, Goto, Island of Love) he divided audiences by moving into graphic erotica (Immoral Tales, The Beast) and subsequently worked his way through exploitation tropes (nunsploitation, Jeksploitation, togasploitation) before creatively imploding spectacularly with his bizarre contribution to the Emmanuelle series. Inspired in look and feel by seventies film and filth mags like Continental Film Review and Sex Stars System, the present author does not much value coherence or consistency. He is interested in contexts and connections, obscure minutiae, jokes (he will judge what is funny), and blurry screen grabs of topless women from seventies softcore flicks. Whilst not ideal, it's better than nothing. Probably. You figure it out. -- Back cover blurb
ISBN: 9780992302160
Donation: Donated by The LedaTape Organisation (Collingwood)