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This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieslowski as a major international director. Kieslowski once said, Both the deep believer and the habitual skeptic experience toothaches in exactly the same way. Of Elephants and Toothaches takes seriously the range of thought, from theological to skeptical, condensed in the cycle's quite human tales. Bringing together scholars of film, philosophy, literature, and several religions, the volume ranges from individual responsibility, to religion in modernity, to familial bonds, to human desire and material greed. It explores Kieslowski's cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue.

Television programs --- Religion on television --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Religion on television. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Kieślowski, Krzysztof, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Dekalog (Television program) --- Biblical intertext. --- Decalogue. --- Embodied experience. --- Krzysztof Kieslowski. --- dialogue. --- ethics in film. --- film cycle. --- moral unrest.

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Wonder, Horror, Mystery is a dialogue between two friends, both notable arts critics, that takes the form of a series of letters about movies and religion. One of the friends, J.M. Tyree, is a film critic, creative writer, and agnostic, while the other, Morgan Meis, is a philosophy PhD, art critic, and practicing Catholic. The question of cinema is raised here in a spirit of friendly friction that binds the personal with the critical and the spiritual. What is film? What's it for? What does it do? Why do we so intensely love or hate films that dare to broach the subjects of the divine and the diabolical? These questions stimulate further thoughts about life, meaning, philosophy, absurdity, friendship, tragedy, humor, death, and God. The letters focus on three filmmakers who challenged secular assumptions in the late 20th century and early 21st century through various modes of cinematic re-enchantment: Terrence Malick, Lars von Trier, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. The book works backwards in time, giving intensive analysis to Malick's To The Wonder (2012), Von Trier's Antichrist (2009), and Kieślowski's Dekalog (1988), respectively, in each of the book's three sections. Meis and Tyree discuss the filmmakers and films as well as related ideas about philosophy, theology, and film theory in an accessible but illuminating way. The discussion ranges from the shamelessly intellectual to the embarrassingly personal. Spoiler alert: No conclusions are reached either about God or the movies. Nonetheless, it is a fun ride.

Motion pictures --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Malick, Terrence, --- Trier, Lars von, --- Kieślowski, Krzysztof, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the poetic texts by following the intricate line of development of the prose poem, in Modern Polish and European literary history and literary genre theory.

Agnieszka --- atemporality --- Case --- cycle --- Genre --- genre theory --- Jakob --- Kluba --- Krzysztof --- lyricism --- Nycz --- Poem --- Poland --- Polish --- Prose --- prose poetry --- Ryszard --- Smólski --- Study --- subjectivity --- Ziguras

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The book presents an outline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century and offers a view of the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, the economy, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, high and popular culture and achievements of art. While the federal character of the state and multicultural society is often overlooked in the synthesis of this period, the creation of civil society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the cultural heritage was the joint achievement of its residents, regardless of their state and ethnic divisions.

Poland --- Lithuania --- History. --- Augustyniak --- Chapters --- Commonwealth --- Culture --- Dorota --- Economy --- Editorial --- Fazan --- Grażyna --- History --- Hryniewicz --- Jarosław --- Krzysztof --- Lithuanian --- Polish --- Political system --- Population --- Religious relations --- Sobstel --- Society --- State --- Territory --- Translated --- Urszula --- VI-X --- Waluga --- work --- Zajas --- 1500-talet --- 1600-talet --- 1700-talet --- Lithuania (Grand Duchy)