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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827201403321

Autore

Haltof Marek

Titolo

Polish cinema : a history / / Marek Haltof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019

ISBN

1-78533-973-7

Edizione

[Second, Updated edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (516 pages)

Classificazione

AP 59749

Disciplina

791.4309438

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Poland - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised edition of: Polish national cinema.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Polish silent cinema (1896-1929) -- The sound period of the 1930s: adaptations, patriotic melodramas, and films in Yiddish -- Cinema, World War II, and the postwar construction of national identity (1939-1948) -- Screen Stalinism: socialist realist films (1949-1954) -- Ashes and diamonds: the Polish School (1955-1963) -- Adaptations, personal style, and popular cinema (1964-1975) -- Camouflage and rough treatment: the "cinema of distrust" (1976-1981) -- The cinema of martial law and afterwards (1982-1988) -- A fistful of dollars: Polish cinema after the wall came down (1989-1998) -- Adapting the national literary canon and reclaiming the past (1999-2004) -- The transforming years (2005- ).

Sommario/riassunto

"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 Kieslowski, 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"--