The Youth and Magic of Cinema

Alicja Helman

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Abstract

A book review of Łukasz A. Plesnar’s The Faces of Western (Twarze westernu, 2009). This impressive book deals with western as a genre and comes with a vast bibliography and filmography. According to Helman, Plesnar’s long in the making book is a competent and complete work on the subject of western. The book is somewhat encyclopaedic in style, but this is typical for Plesnar, as his other books also have a very high informative value. The reviewer notes however that this completeness might make reading more difficult, as the book is overfilled with lists of items.


Keywords:

Łukasz Plesnar, review, western

Bazin André, Ewolucja westernu, w: André Bazin, Film i rzeczywistość, WAiF, Warszawa 1963, s. 151-152.
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Plesnar Łukasz A., Twarze westernu, Wydawnictwo Rabid, Kraków 2009, s. 11-12, 24.
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Syska Rafał, W tęsknocie za westernem, „Kino” 2010, nr 3, s. 86.
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Published
2010-12-31

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Helman, A. (2010) “The Youth and Magic of Cinema”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (71-72), pp. 334–337. doi: 10.36744/kf.3039.

Authors

Alicja Helman 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland

Filmoznawca; wykłada w Insty­tucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych UJ. Prowadzi bada­nia w zakresie teorii filmu, komparatystyki. W dorobku naukowym ma ponad 20 książek autorskich, m.in.: O dziele filmowym (1970 i 1981), Film faktów i film fikcji (1977), Przedmiot i metody filmoznawstwa (1985), Słownik pojęć filmowych (1991-1998), Historia semiotyki filmu, t. 1-2 (1992-1993), Twórcza zdrada. Filmowe ad­aptacje literatury (1998), Urok zmierzchu. Filmy Luchina Viscontiego (2002), Ten smutek hiszpań­ski. Konteksty twórczości filmowej Carlosa Saury (2005), Odcienie czerwieni. Twórczość Filmowa Zhanga Yimou (2010).



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