Polish Cinema : : A History / / Marek Haltof.

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 po...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (516 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Polish Silent Cinema (1896–1929)
  • 2. The Sound Period of the 1930s: Adaptations, Patriotic Melodramas, and Films in Yiddish
  • 3. Cinema, World War II, and the Postwar Construction of National Identity (1939–1948)
  • 4. Screen Stalinism: Socialist Realist Films (1949–1954)
  • 5. Ashes and Diamonds: The Polish School (1955–1963)
  • 6. Adaptations, Personal Style, and Popular Cinema (1964–1975)
  • 7. Camouflage and Rough Treatment: The “Cinema of Distrust” (1976–1981)
  • 8. The Cinema of Martial Law and Afterward (1982–1988)
  • 9. A Fistful of Dollars: Polish Cinema after the Wall Came Down (1989–1998)
  • 10. Adapting the National Literary Canon and Reclaiming the Past (1999–2004)
  • 11. The Transforming Years (2005– )
  • Appendices
  • Selected Filmography
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Film Titles