Women and Polish Cinema

Elzbieta Ostrowska is Associate Professor of Film and Audiovisual Media at the University of Lódz, Poland. She is co-author (with Ewa Mazierska) of Women in Polish Cinema (2006). Her articles have appeared in Slavic Review, Studies in European Cinema, and Film-Philosophy.Malgorzata Radkiewicz is Professor of Film Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland. She is author of Derek Jarman: Portrait of an Individualist (2003), The Young Wolves of Polish Cinema: The Gender Category and the Debuts of the 90s (2006) and Faces of Queer Cinema (2014).

• AcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsElzbieta Ostrowska, Malgorzata Radkiewicz, Introduction: Out of frame, devoid of fame: Polish Cinema’s marginalized women Part One: Broken voices 1. Grzegorz Rogowski, “Women in Pre-war Film: Based on biographies of Nora Ney, Jadwiga Smosarska and Lena Zelichowska”2. Paulina Kwiatkowska, “Women’s Problems – Women’s Solutions: Female students of the Film School in Lódz between the reality of socialism and socialist realism”3. Magdalena Podsiadlo-Kwiecien, “Disappearing debutantes in post-transformation Polish cinema 1989-2005”Part Two: Voices from the margins4. Hanna Margolis “Halina Bielinska and Katarzyna Latallo: How They Became (or not?) the Mothers of Polish Animation”5. Jadwiga Hucková, “’Women of coal’: post-war industrialization in films by female documentary filmmakers” 6. Magdalena Walo, “The Forgotten Mothers of Children's Cinema: Directors from Wanda Jakubowska’s Circle”7. Paulina Haratyk, “Janina Matejuk and the Amateur Film Clubs Movement”Part Three: (In)dependent voices8. Sebastian Jagielski, “An actress’s sovereignty: the emancipatory project of Lucyna Winnicka”9. Malgorzata Radkiewicz, "Women in The Film Unit 'X': in the Shadow of Andrzej Wajda"10. Elzbieta Ostrowska, “The 'Man of Providence' and his 'Secret Advisor': the collaboration of Andrzej Wajda and Agnieszka Holland” Bibliography