Marek Haltof is a Professor at Northern Michigan University. His recent books include Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration (2018), Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema (second edition, 2015), and Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (2012).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Polish Silent Cinema (1896-1929)
Chapter 2. The Sound Period of the 1930s: Adaptations, Patriotic Melodramas, and Films in Yiddish
Chapter 3. Cinema, World War II, and the Postwar Construction of National Identity (1939-1948)
Chapter 4. Screen Stalinism: Socialist Realist Films (1949-1954)
Chapter 5. Ashes and Diamonds: The Polish School (1955-1963)
Chapter 6. Adaptations, Personal Style, and Popular Cinema (1964-1975)
Chapter 7. Camouflage and Rough Treatment: The "Cinema of Distrust" (1976-1981)
Chapter 8. The Cinema of Martial Law and Afterward (1982-1988)
Chapter 9. A Fistful of Dollars: Polish Cinema after the Wall Came Down (1989-1998)
Chapter 10. Adapting the National Literary Canon and Reclaiming the Past (1999-2004)
Chapter 11. The Transforming Years (2005-)

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Index of Names

Index of Films