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Hope Is of a Different Color
The history of film students from the Global South who studied in Poland during the Cold War. As Poland’s second-largest city, Łódź was a hub for international students who studied in Poland from the mid-1960s to 1989. The Łódź Film School, a member of CILECT since 1955, was a favored destination, with students from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East accounting for one-third of its international student body. Despite the school’s international reputation, the experience of its filmmakers from the Global South is little known beyond Poland. Hope Is of a Different Color addresses the history of student exchanges between the Global South and the Polish People’s Republic duri...
Reassessing Communism
The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project ...
Remembering Communism
Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past. The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of “the system”.
Women in the International Film Industry
The chapter Experiencing Male Dominance in Swedish Film Production” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Past for the Eyes
How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.
Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives ...
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. In The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, contributors trace the legacies of communist ideology in visual culture, from buildings and monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals a...
Maria Kornatowska
Barbara GIZA Piotr ZWIERZCHOWSKI redakcja naukowa tom 4 serii Polscy Krytycy Filmowi Maria Kornatowska doskonale czuła ducha czasu, wychwytywała zmiany społeczne i obyczajowe, świetnie orientowała się we współczesnym życiu artystycznym, ale przede wszystkim wierzyła w kino, w jego magię i sztukę obrazu. Szukała w nim niejednoznaczności, nieoczywistości, tego, co ukryte. O niektórych filmach opowiadała, odsłaniała ich znaczenia, wychwytywała konteksty, tworzyła ich sensy, te najważniejsze (jak Federica Felliniego i Wojciecha Jerzego Hasa, jej dwóch wielkich filmowych miłości) były dla niej towarzyszami podróży w wędrówce przez kulturę, obraz i tajemnicę. Skupia...
Seksbomby PRL-u. Edycja z autografem
Opowieści o aktorkach, które rozpalały żądze Polaków – Kalinie Jędrusik, Barbarze Brylskiej, Katarzynie Figurze, Grażynie Szapołowskiej i Beacie Tyszkiewicz – ilustrują niezwykle ciekawe zdjęcia i dokumenty świetnie obrazujące epokę. „Ten wybór nie wyczerpuje zagadnienia – tłumaczy we wstępie autor książki Krzysztof Tomasik. – Początkowo wytypowałem dziesięć aktorek, ale szybko okazało się, że temat jest zbyt rozległy, a życiorysy pań zbyt fascynujące, by można je było zmieścić w jednym tomie. Potrzebna była selekcja, zrobiona przeze mnie arbitralnie, bo przecież możliwy byłby inny zestaw. Ten ostateczny jest chyba zrozumiały – Jędrusik, Ty...
