Modern Filmmakers

Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2009.

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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Poland: The Early Years; 2. Knife in the Water (1962); 3. Bridge to Freedom: England in the Sixties; 4. American Lullaby: Rosemary's Baby (1968); 5. No Man's Land; 6. Redemption: Chinatown (1974); 7. The Stranger Upstairs: The Tenant (1976); 8. "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented": Tess (1979); 9. Where Is Polanski?; 10. Return to Suspense; 11. The Pianist (2002); 12. Oliver Twist (2005); Epilogue; Afterword; Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile is a revealing look at this acclaimed filmmaker whose life in exile seems to have made his films all the more personal and powerful. ||Written by a film critic, this insightful book follows PolanskiÕs story from his childhood in a World War II Jewish ghetto to his early films in Poland; from his American breakout, RosemaryÕs Baby, to his wifeÕs murder by the Manson family; from the spectacular return of Chinatown, to his exile as a convicted sex criminal, to the monumental career peak, The Pianist. The Holocaust, the oppression of communism, the shattering of th

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