Film Convention in Wisła in Full View of Auxiliary Sciences
Monika Talarczyk
m.talarczyk@filmschool.lodz.plThe Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2742-0657
Abstract
The article is a review of the book Zjazd Filmowy w Wiśle 1949. Źródła, komentarze, opracowania [Film Convention in Wisła 1949: Sources, Commentaries, Studies] (2024), edited by Barbara Giza and Adam Wyżynski. Offering a comprehensive study of the convention archives, this publication initiates the project of the Library of the Polish National Film Archive (FINA) aimed at preparing critical editions of sources of significant importance to the history of Polish film. This carefully crafted edition o f documents, mainly records of the spoken word, was enriched with unpublished photographs from the convention, ephemeral prints, comparative analyses of variants of the participants’ statements, and commentaries by historians and film scholars. The editors have portrayed this fateful event in the fullest possible light.
Keywords:
film archive, socialist realism, Film Convention in Wisła, Polish film studiesReferences
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Monika Talarczykm.talarczyk@filmschool.lodz.pl
The Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2742-0657
PhD, Professor at the Lodz Film School, film scholar and historian of Polish film. She researches minor cinema, i.e. women’s cinema and transnational cinema. Her books include: Biały mazur. Kino kobiet w polskiej kinematografii [White Mazur: Women’s Cinema in Polish Cinematography] (2013), Wanda Jakubowska. Revisited (2022); she also co-edited the volume Hope Is of Different Color: From the Global South to the Lodz Film School (2021). In collaboration with Anna Leśniewska-Zagrodzka, she has written a monograph on Stanisław Wohl (forthcoming in 2025). She is working on a monograph of Helena Lemańska, editor-in-chief of the Polish Film Chronicle.
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