Roman Polanski - 9780252074462

Roman PolanskiAuthor(s): James Morrison\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252074462, 978-0252074462\nSynopsis\nA new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concretewhat is out in the openand why we so rarely see it.\n\nThe range of Polanski's filmmaking challenges traditional divisions between high and low culture. For example,The Ninth Gateis a brash pastiche of the horror genre