Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: A Private Universe 1
6. CHAPTER 1 Boro: Escape Artist 13
7. CHAPTER 2 Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera 48
8. CHAPTER 3 Animated Bodies: A Conversation between 54
9. CHAPTER 4 Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk’s Post-traumatic Surrealism 64
10. CHAPTER 5 The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent’s Cinematic Confession 77
11. CHAPTER 6 Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed 89
12. CHAPTER 7 Borowczyk’s Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to Behind Convent Walls (1977) 93
13. CHAPTER 8 Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk’s A Private Collection (1973) 103
14. CHAPTER 9 The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk’s The Beast (1975) 111
15. CHAPTER 10 Laugh in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in the Films of Walerian Borowczyk 118
16. CHAPTER 11 Enjoying Excess A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin (1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Żeromski 132
17. CHAPTER 12 The Beach, the Bubble, and the Boudoir: The Meeting Spaces of Walerian Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues 148
18. CHAPTER 13 Sex and the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects 159
19. CHAPTER 14 Reflecting on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) 166
20. CHAPTER 15 The Perils of Emmanuelle A Conversation between Odie Henderson, Simon Abrams, and Michał Oleszczyk 170
21. CHAPTER 16 Revisiting Love Rites (1988) 183
22. Walerian Borowczyk Filmography 189
23. Index 193