Women in Polish Cinema /

Women in Polish Cinema / / Ewa Mazierska, Elzbieta Ostrowska.

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 sociali...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Mazierska, Ewa,
Ostrowska, Elzbieta,
MitwirkendeR:
Mazierska, Ewa,
Ostrowska, Elżbieta,
Szwajcowska, Joanna,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART I The Polish Mother
  • CHAPTER 1 The Myth of the Polish Mother
  • PART II Women According to Men
  • CHAPTER 2 Filmic Representations of the Myth of the Polish Mother
  • CHAPTER 3 Polish ‘Superwoman’: a Liberation or Victimisation?
  • CHAPTER 4 Caught between Activity and Passivity: Women in the Polish School
  • CHAPTER 5 Agnieszka and Other Solidarity Heroines of Polish Cinema
  • CHAPTER 6 Witches, Bitches and Other Victims of the Crisis of Masculinity: Women in Polish Postcommunist Cinema
  • CHAPTER 7 Between Fear and Attraction: Images of ‘Other’ Women
  • PART III Women behind the Camera
  • CHAPTER 8 Wanda Jakubowska: the Communist Fighter
  • CHAPTER 9 Barbara Sass: the Author of Women’s Films
  • CHAPTER 10 Agnieszka Holland: a Sceptic
  • CHAPTER 11 Dorota Kędzierzawska: Ambivalent Feminist
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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