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Polish Cinema Today

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793641668
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Polish Cinema Today written by Helena Goscilo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in distribution and marketing. By the early 2000s, an impressive, diverse cohort of filmmakers broke through the gridlock of a small set of esteemed, aging auteurs as well as the glut of imported Hollywood blockbusters, empowered by the digital revolution and domestic audience appetite for independent work. Polish directors today challenge sacrosanct bromides about national and gender identity, Poland’s historical martyrdom, the status of the influential Catholic Church, and the benevolent family, while investigating the phenomena of migration and sexuality in their full complexity. Each thematic chapter places these recent films within a historical/cultural context nationally and transnationally, and designs its analyses of specific works to engage general audiences of film scholars, students, and cinephiles.

Polish National Cinema

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812759
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Polish National Cinema written by Marek Haltof and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since World War 2, Poland has developed one of Europe's most distinguished film cultures. This is a comprehensive study of Polish cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present.

Polish Cinema

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339737
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Polish Cinema written by Marek Haltof and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002, Marek Haltof’s seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe’s most distinguished—yet unjustly neglected—film cultures. Since then, seismic changes have reshaped Polish society, European politics, and the global film industry. This thoroughly revised and updated edition takes stock of these dramatic shifts to provide an essential account of Polish cinema from the nineteenth century to today, covering such renowned figures as Kieślowski, Skolimowski, and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television, all set against the backdrop of an ever-more transnational film culture.

Polish Film and the Holocaust

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453572
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Polish Film and the Holocaust written by Marek Haltof and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage (1948) and Aleksander Ford’s Border Street (1949), and next explores the Polish School period, represented by Andrzej Wajda’s A Generation (1955) and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger (1963). Between 1965 and 1980 there was an “organized silence” regarding sensitive Polish-Jewish relations resulting in only a few relevant films until the return of democracy in 1989 when an increasing number were made, among them Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue 8 (1988), Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak (1990), Jan Jakub Kolski’s Keep Away from the Window (2000), and Roman Polański’s The Pianist (2002). An important contribution to film studies, this book has wider relevance in addressing the issue of Poland’s national memory.

Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244720
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema written by Marek Haltof and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Prószyński made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow. Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupt side of communism. Poland has produced several internationally known films, including Andrzej Wajda’s war trilogy, A Generation (1955), Kanal (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (1958); Roman Polański’s Knife in the Water (1962); and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger (1963). Often performing specific political and cultural duties for their nation, Polish filmmakers were well aware of their role as educators, entertainers, social activists, and political leaders. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema fills the gap in film scholarship, presenting an extensive factual survey of Polish film. Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented. Readers with professional interest in cinema will welcome this new work, which will enhance senior undergraduate or postgraduate courses in film studies.

Andrzej Wajda

Author : Janina Falkowska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455088
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Andrzej Wajda written by Janina Falkowska and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world's most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film and art movements. It is the reworking of these different elements by Wajda, as the author shows, which give his films their unique visual and aural qualities.

Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
ISBN 13 : 9781442244719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema written by Marek Haltof and published by Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented.

Women in Polish Cinema

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819482
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Women in Polish Cinema written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the "Polish Mother," female characters in socialist realistic cinema, women depicted in the films of the Polish School, Solidarity heroines, and women in the films from the postcommunist period. Not less important for the success of Polish cinema are Polish women filmmakers, four of whom are presented in this volume: Wanda Jakubowska, Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass and Dorota Kędzierzawska, whose work is examined.

Polish National Cinema

Author : Marek Haltof
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384693
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Polish National Cinema written by Marek Haltof and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464688
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk. The opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, coupled with the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, presents ideal conditions for examiningPolish cinema from a transnational vantage point. Yet not only have studies of Polish cinema remained largely within a national framework but Polish cinema, as well as many other Eastern European cinemas, has been virtually excluded from new research in transnational cinema. Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context addresses this lacuna in film studies, offering extended analysis of this national cinema's global influence. Contributors assess the reception of Polish films in Europe and North America, Polish international coproductions, the presence of Polish performers in foreign films, and the works of subversive émigré auteurs like Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk. The collection presents familiar films and filmmakers in a new and revealing light, while also focusing on lesser-known filmmakers and aspects of Polish cinema. The resulting volume moves the discussion beyond the border of Polish national belonging. Contributors: Peter Hames, Darragh O'Donoghue, Helena Goscilo, Dorota Ostrowska, Charlotte Govaert, Eva Näripea, Izabela Kalinowska, Ewa Mazierska, Alison Smith, Lars Kristensen, Jonathan Owen, Michael Goddard, Robert Murphy, Kamila Kuc, Elzbieta Ostrowska Ewa Mazierska is professor of film studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Michael Goddard is senior lecturer in media at the University of Salford.

Polish Postcommunist Cinema

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105298
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Polish Postcommunist Cinema written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of Polish cinema from 1989 up to the present in a broad political and cultural context, looking at both the film industry and film artistry. It considers the main ideas behind the institutional changes in the Polish film industry after the collapse of communism and assesses how these ideas were implemented. In discussing artistry, the focus is on the genres which dominated the Polish cinematic landscape after 1989 and the most important directors.

Women in Polish Cinema

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819475
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Women in Polish Cinema written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to explore the main types of female character in Polish feature cinema, from its beginnings to contemporary times and also to analyse the work of the most prominent Polish women film directors against the background of the roles being played by women in Polish history and their positions within society.

Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set

Author : Ian Aitken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135206279
Total Pages : 1561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set written by Ian Aitken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 1561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual films and the careers of individual film makers, it also provides overview articles of national and regional documentary film history. It explains concepts and themes in the study of documentary film, the techniques used in making films, and the institutions that support their production, appreciation, and preservation.

The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema

Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718508
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema written by Richard Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I through to the varied responses to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. It includes entries on actors and actresses, film festivals, studios, genres, directors, film movements, critics, producers and technicians, taking the coverage up to the late 1990s. In addition to the historical material of key figures like Eisenstein and Wadja, the editors provide separate accounts of the trajectory of the cinemas of Eastern Europe and of Russia in the wake of the collapse of communism.

Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945

Author : M.B.B. Biskupski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173523
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945 written by M.B.B. Biskupski and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Poland, however, was represented in a negative light in numerous movies. In Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945, M. B. B. Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be (1942), In Our Time (1944), and None Shall Escape (1944). He researched memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors to explore the negative portrayal of Poland during World War II. Biskupski also examines the political climate that influenced Hollywood films.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Author : Renata Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626745749
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Krzysztof Kieslowski written by Renata Bernard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died. Kieslowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book Kieslowski on Kieslowski. This collection, by contrast, reveals the shifting voice of a filmmaker who was initially optimistic about his social and cultural role, then felt himself buffeted by the turbulent politics and events of the People’s Republic of Poland. As described in the chronology in this book, he found himself subject to the “economic censorship” of post-Communist filmmaking. How Kieslowski responded at each moment of his life, what he tried to achieve with each of his films, is finely detailed in thirty-five selections. These pieces bring together his thesis from the famous Lodz film school, a manifesto written just before the dark days of martial law in Poland, diary entries from the first time he was working outside Poland, and numerous rare interviews from Polish-, French-, and English-language sources.

The Cinema House and the World

Author : Serge Daney
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635901618
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema House and the World written by Serge Daney and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film. One of the greatest film critics of his generation, Serge Daney wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the daily newspaper Libération. The writings collected in this volume reflect Daney’s evolving interests, from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film, psychoanalysis, and popular culture. Openly gay throughout his lifetime, Daney rarely wrote explicitly about homosexuality but his writings reflect a queer sensibility that would influence future generations. In regular intellectual exchanges with Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Roland Barthes, Daney wrote about cinema autobiographically, while lyrically analyzing the transition from modern cinema to postmodern media. A noted polymath, Daney also published books about tennis and Haiti’s notorious Duvalier regime. His criticism is open and challenging, polyvocal and compulsively readable.