Polish Cinema Today

Helena Goscilo is professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Culture at Ohio State University.Beth Holmgren is professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.

• Introduction: Why Polish Cinema Today?Chapter 1: Saints and Sinners: The Polish Catholic Church in Close-upChapter 2: Wandering Poles: Lost or Left in MigrationChapter 3: All in the Family: The Ties that Bind and BlightChapter 4: Rescreening Christian-Jewish Relations in Interwar, Wartime, and Postwar PolandChapter 5: Crime à la Carte: Death and Double-DealingChapter 6: Cold War Retakes in the 21st CenturyChapter 7: Female Sexuality with and without ApologiesChapter 8: Male Gays under a Female GazeConclusion: Polish Film Tomorrow?

To satisfy all three intended audiences—film teachers, students, and cinephiles—Goscilo and Holmgren selected critically acclaimed films and films that elicited the liveliest discussions in the courses they taught at their respect universities…. The sophisticated close analyses of the films are interspersed with pertinent information about the films' directors and actors and the reception of the films both nationally and internationally. The book is a welcome addition to the existing corpus of Polish film studies scholarship. It will be a great resource not only for scholars but also for lovers of Polish cinema. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.