Boro, L'Île d'Amour (eBook)

Kuba Mikurda teaches at the Film School in Łódź, Poland, and is a film critic, curator, and broadcaster. He is series editor of “Linia Filmowa” for Korporacja Ha!art Press, with whom he recently published Corpus Delicti in collaboration with Jakub Woynarowski (2013). He is currently working on a documentary film about Walerian Borowczyk.

Kamila Kuc is Post-doctoral Researcher in New Media at and Goldsmiths College, University of London, as well as a writer, curator, and experimental filmmaker. Her most recent publication is The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film 1916–1989 (Wallflower Press, 2014), co-edited with Michael O’Pray.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Private Universe
Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk

Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist
Kuba Mikurda

Chapter 2. Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera
Marcin Giżycki

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 Żeromski
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 Michał Oleszczyk

Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988)
Kevin Lee

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