Polish Cinema A History 1st Edition by Marek Haltof ISBN 9781785339738 1785339737

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