Historia kina nie musi być historią arcydzieł
The History of Cinema Does Not Have to Be a History of Masterpieces
Author(s): Grzegorz Fortuna Jr.Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Book-Review, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: American cinema; exploitation film; blaxploitation; film production; film distribution;
Summary/Abstract: Jacek Rokosz’s books Stracone dusze [Lost Souls] (2017) and Nadzy i rozszarpani [Naked and Torn Apart] (2021) describe in detail the history of American exploitation cinema in 1929-1959 and 1960-1980, respectively. The author shows the social, political and cultural context of the cinema in question, and describes in detail the production and distribution strategies of producers working in that industry. The two-volume, over seven-hundred-page-long publication in the spirit of New Cinema History is a pioneering monograph with regard to film studies publishing in Poland, as it deals with topics reluctantly taken up by Polish scholars.
Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 118
- Page Range: 180-186
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Polish