Polish National Cinema (EPUB) von Marek Haltof

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Polish Cinema before the Introduction of SoundChapter 2. The Sound Period of the 1930sChapter 3. Polish FilmsWhose Dreams? Cinema and the Political Construction of Polish National Identity after World War IIChapter 4. The Poetics of Screen Stalinism: Socialist Realist FilmsChapter 5. The Polish School RevisitedChapter 6. Adaptations, Personal Style, and Popular Cinema between 1965 and 1976Chapter 7. Camouflage and Rough Treatment: The "Cinema of Distrust," the Solidarity Period, and AfterwardsChapter 8. Landscape after Battle: The Return of DemocracyChapter 9. The Representation of Stalinism in Polish CinemaChapter 10. National Memory, the Holocaust, and Images of the Jew in Postwar Polish FilmsChapter 11. Polish Films with an American AccentAfterwordSelected FilmographySelected BibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Film Titles

In the years since World War II, Poland has developed one of Europe's most distinguished film cultures. However, in spite of the importance of Polish cinema this is a domain in need of systematic study.This book is the first comprehensive study of Polish cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present. It provides not only an introduction to Polish cinema within a socio-political and economic context, but also to the complexities of East-Central European cinema and politics.

Marek Haltof is Assistant Professor in Film in the English Department at Northern Michigan University. He published Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide (1996) and three books on cinema in Polish, including Australian Cinema: On the Screen Construction of Australia (1996) and Author and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox (2001). He is also the author of two novels published in Poland.