Film's feisty femmes : today's Polish women directors / Helena Goscilo with Vincent Albarano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goscilo, Helena, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Albarano Vincent, editor.

Series:

Film and media studies (Boston, Mass.)

Film and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--Poland.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Newton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2026.

Summary:

"t would be difficult to overestimate the importance, originality, and success of current Polish female directors, whose bold, vivid features have taken the film industry by storm. Film’s Feisty Femmes spotlights nine of the most productive, internationally acclaimed women in a profession traditionally dominated by men but characterized in 21st-century Poland by receptivity to creative talent regardless of gender. With the transition to a market economy, institutional innovations appreciably transformed the country’s filmmaking—a transformation of which audiences are the primary beneficiaries.The volume’s seven chapters combine textual analysis with assessment of camerawork, situating each director’s major works in a cultural context that includes significant developments in Poland as well as international trends in cinema and gender politics. A major issue addressed throughout entails the directors’ relationship to feminism in narratives that are unapologetically gynocentric."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Privilege, ambition, and professional savvy / Małgorzata Szumowska

Family as a house of pain / Magdalena Piekorz

Feminism in major keys / Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Between gynocentrism and soft porn or the seduction of pop capital/ism / Maria Sadowska

The rewards of implication in narrating gendered predicaments / Anna Jadowska

Life on the edge vs. smiling closures / Kinga Dębska

Fine beginnings / Kazejak, Chajdas, Szelc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed May 7, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Goscilo, Helena, 1945- Film's feisty femmes.

ISBN:

9798897830688

9798897830671

OCLC:

1573198346

Access Restriction:

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