Polish cinema today : a bold new era in film / Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren.

Author/creator Goscilo, Helena, 1945- author.
Other author Holmgren, Beth, 1955- author.
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
Copyright Date©2021
Descriptionix, 348 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Motion pictures--Poland. --History. --21st century.

Contents Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Transformation of the Polish Film Industry -- Recurring Themes in Polish Cinema Today -- The Structure of Polish Cinema Today -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Saints and Sinners -- The Citadel of Polish Traditions -- The Church in Western and Polish Cinema -- Apotheosis and Sainthood -- The Darker Side -- Clergy's Documentary Counterpart: Tylko nie mow nikomu (Just Don't Tell Anyone 2019), Tomasz and Marek Sekielski; 83 -- Conclusion: Screening the Church -- Notes
Contents Chapter 2: Wandering Poles -- Polish Migration and Emigration in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centires -- Poles Abroad: Strange Heaven (2015) -- Poles Abroad: Beyond Words (2017) -- Poles Left at Home: Wild Roses (2017) -- Poles Left at Home: Silent Night (2017) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: All in the Family -- Myths and Mythologies -- Double Exposure: Cicha noc (Silent Night 2017), Piotr Domalewski -- "L'enfer c'est les autres": Ostatnia rodzina (The Last Family 2016), Jan Matuszynski
Contents Life as Psychodrama or Maternal Death as Familial Demise: 33 Sceny z zycia (33 Scenes from Life 2008), Malgorzata Szumowska26 -- The Fragile Male Ego: Milosc (Love 2012), Slawomir Fabicki35 -- The Biology Trap: Matka swojej matki (Mother to Her Own Mother 1996), Robert Glinski -- Murderous Maternity: Syn Krolowej Sniegu (Son of the Snow Queen 2017/2018), Robert Wichrowski -- A la recherche du temps perdu: Fuga (Fugue 2018), Agnieszka Smoczynska -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Rescreening Christian-Jewish Relations in Interwar, Wartime, and Postwar Poland
Contents The Twenty-First-Century Cultural Context: The Jewish Revival -- The Twenty-First-Century Context: Jedwabne, New Holocaust Scholarship, and Documentaries -- Twenty-First-Century Rescreenings of the Polish Jews -- The Manipulation of Moving Images: Po-Lin: Scraps of Memory (2008) -- De-theatricalizing the Holocaust: Holland's In Darkness -- The Blank of Postwar Jewishness in Pawlikowski's Ida -- Poles against Poles: Digging up the Holocaust at Home in Pasikowski's Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Crime a la Carte -- On the street and on the Screen
Contents The New Poland's Criminal Cont(r)acts: Dług (The Debt 1999), Krzysztof Krauze -- Murder with a Smile: Ach spij kochanie (The Lullaby Killer 2017), Krzysztof Lang -- Convenient but Dubious Guilt: Jestem morderca (I'm a Killer 2016), Maciej Pieprzyca -- Caught in a Web of His Own Making: Czerwony pajak (The Red Spider 2015), Marcin Koszalka -- The Past with Its Horrors Never Dies: Zacma (Blindness 2016), Ryszard Bugajski -- Juridical Machismo and the System: Uklad zamkniety (Closed Circuit 2013), Ryszard Bugajski -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Cold War Retakes in the Twenty-first Century
Abstract This book examines recent innovations in Polish film. The authors analyzes the ways in which Polish directors challenge revered images of national and gender identity, the country's historical martyrdom, the benevolent family, and the status of the influential Catholic Church.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781793641663
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN179364165X
ISBN9781793641656

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