Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy by Deighan, Samm
Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy by Deighan, Samm

Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy

Andrzej Żulawski remains one of cinema's great uncompromising visionaries. Though Possession has achieved cult status, the rest...
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Author: Samm Deighan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy by Deighan, Samm

Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy

$45.60
Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy by Deighan, Samm

Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy

$45.60
Author: Samm Deighan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Andrzej Żulawski remains one of cinema's great uncompromising visionaries. Though Possession has achieved cult status, the rest of his extraordinary body of work-from The Third Part of the Night and The Devil to On the Silver Globe, Szamanka, and Cosmos-continues to be too little known. Hysterical Excess and Inhuman Ecstasy is the first book to examine every feature film in Żulawski's career, tracing the obsessions that unite them: ecstatic love, political repression, surrealism, romantic despair, the grotesque, and the emotional extremes that made him one of the most singular filmmakers of the twentieth century.

Drawing on literature, history, philosophy, and close analysis, Samm Deighan reveals the deeper patterns beneath Żulawski's notoriously explosive cinema, illuminating the artistic, cultural, and intellectual currents that shaped his work without sacrificing the visceral power that continues to astonish audiences. Whether you are discovering Żulawski beyond Possession for the first time or returning to his films with fresh eyes, this book is an essential guide to a filmmaker whose cinema remains as exhilarating, unsettling, and transformative today as ever.



Author: Samm Deighan
Publisher: Sticking Place Books
Published: 10/12/2026
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9798899761263

About the Author
Deighan, Samm: - Samm Deighan is a New York-based film historian, author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema (2021) and editor of Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse (2024). She also hosts the Eros + Massacre podcast.
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