"The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Hollands female characters and how they have been reshaped across half a century. Piotrowska considers Hollands distinctive and evolving vision of society, history, gender and family relationships, with particular attention to how the filmmakers own background has influenced this vision. The study engages with Freuds notion of afterwardness, Marianne Hirschs concept of posthistory, and the authors theorisations of female authorship and the figure of the "nasty woman" in cinema. Through detailed readings of six feature films, it highlights Hollands extraordinary contribution to global film and television culture, and her movement from despair to a creative rage through collaborations and adaptations. This original and insightful work will be essential reading for students and scholars of European and world cinema, feminism, gender studies, European history, filmmaking, authorship and applied psychoanalysis and ethics"-- Provided by publisher.