Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context - 9781580464680

Polish Cinema in a Transnational ContextAuthor(s): Ewa Mazierska, Michael Goddard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580464680, 978-1580464680\nSynopsis\nThis volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive migr auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk.\n\nThe opening up of Poland economically and politically to global influences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, coupled with the rise of transnational approaches to the study of film, presents ideal conditions for examiningPolish cinema from a transnational vantage point. Yet not only have studies of Polish cinema remained largely within a national framework but Polish cinema, as well as many other Eastern European cinemas, has been virtually excluded from new research in transnational cinema.\n Polish Cinema in a Transnational Cont.