Clandestine human and cinematic passages in the United Europe: The Polish Plumber and Kieślowski's hairdresser

@article{SkrodzkaBates2011ClandestineHA,
  title={Clandestine human and cinematic passages in the United Europe: The Polish Plumber and Kieślowski's hairdresser},
  author={Agnieszka Skrodzka-Bates},
  journal={Studies in Eastern European Cinema},
  year={2011},
  volume={2},
  pages={75 - 90}
}
ABSTRACT Using a Cultural Studies approach, this article provides a re-interpretation of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Trzy kolory: Bialy/Trois couleurs: Blanc/Three Colours: White (Kieślowski, 1994) as an early example of the post-Soviet transnational cinema. Paired with the socio-economic analysis of the Polish Plumber controversy that surfaced in France in the summer of 2005 (with specific references to the notorious Polish Plumber poster), the following discussion explores how Kieślowski's text… 
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