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).

List of Illustrations
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-)

Appendices
Select Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Films

First published in 2002, Marek Haltof's seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe's most distinguished-yet unjustly neglected-film cultures. Since then, seismic changes have reshaped Polish society, European politics, and the global film industry. This thoroughly revised and updated edition takes stock of these dramatic shifts to provide an essential account of Polish cinema from the nineteenth century to today, covering such renowned figures as Kie¿lowski, Skolimowski, and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television, all set against the backdrop of an ever-more transnational film culture.