A ground-breaking and influential study of transnational Polish filmmakers and stars, while also re-evaluating critically neglected and/or negatively assessed Polish films and tendencies.
STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
[T]his volume is an excellent start to tracing the history of Polish cinema . from a transnational perspective. As Mazierska and Goddard point out, seminal books on the topic of transnational ... Read morecinema rarely include chapters on Eastern Europe . This volume begins to rectify this omission and therefore represents an important contribution to transnational film studies. SLAVIC AND EASTERN EUROPEAN JOURNAL The book edited by Ewa Mazierska and Michael Goddard is one of the most interesting publications on Polish cinema in recent years, and it opens a new methodological horizon for our research.
THE POLISH REVIEW
This interesting and lively book identifies and fills a gap in the study of cinema in general and Polish cinema in particular: that of Polish cinema's transnational dimension. Consideration of the long-standing relevance of transnationalism to this important cinematic tradition is overdue.
Paul Coates, professor of film studies, University of Western Ontario
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