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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Van Heuckelom, Kris. Polish Migrants in European Film 1918-2017. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, ©2019 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kris van Heuckelom |
| ISBN: | 3030042189 9783030042189 |
| OCLC Number: | 1099962751 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Poles of Attraction -- Objectives and Scope of the Research -- Corpus and Methodology -- Presentation of the Book -- References -- 2. From Polish Romanticism to Poland's Europeanisation: The Cultural Meanings and the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Migration in the Modern Age -- Polish Migrations and Their Cultural Resonance -- Migration, Modern Nostalgia and "Ethnic Kitschification" -- Modernisation, Europeanisation and Polish "Close Otherness" -- References -- 3. Polish Entertainers and Entertaining Polishness: Staging Expatriates in Interwar Cinema (1918 -- 1939) -- International Migration and Early Cinema -- Artists and Entertainers on the Move: Negri, Kiepura, Popesco -- The "Russian Fashion" (Inside and Outside the Hexagon) -- Pola Negri as Mania Walkowska, the Cigarette Worker -- Jan Kiepura: From Commoner to Entertaining Star -- Pola Negri's German Comeback: Vera Kowalska as the Suitcase Woman in Mazurka (1935) -- Elvire Popesco as the Eccentric, Seductive and Romantic "Cousin from Warsaw" -- Expatriate Polishness as Entertainment Factor: Popesco and Sacha Guitry -- Foreigners (Poles) on Screen and the Double Lack of "Authentic Immediacy" -- The French Exception Revisited: "The Polish Labourer's Wife" and Jean Renoir's Toni (1935) -- References -- 4. From Expatriation Through Defection to Immigration: Polish Characters in Wartime and Cold War Film (1940 -- 1980) -- Updating (and Closing) the Interwar Paradigm: Kiepura, Renoir, Fedora (Negri) -- War Heroes and Traitors: Polish Accents and Undertones in the British Cinematic War -- The European Theatre Through a British (-Swiss) Lens: Displaced Persons and the Future of the Continent -- Testing Polish-British Loyalty and Heroism: Cold War Defectors and Secret Agents -- Polish Bravery Revisited: Outsider Solidarity in Tiger Bay (1959) -- Between Neorealism, Romanticism and Geopolitics: The Postwar Italian Lens -- The Swindlers (1959): Looking (in Vain) for the Polish Gastarbeiter -- Designing (and Contesting) Modern Life: Old and New Immigrants in the Age of (West) European Modernisation -- The 1970s Transition: Immigrant Pathologies (and the Quest for the Feminine) -- References -- 5. Screening (Non-)Solidarity, Now and Before: Polish Immigrants in Late Cold War Film (1980 -- 1989) -- The Andrzej Wajda Effect and the Multiple Faces of Solidarity -- Screening the Cross-Border Mobility of Polish Men -- Entangled Contexts of Reception: The Second Cold War and Post-recession Economics -- Allegories of Labour, Neoliberalism and the Nation: Jerzy Skolimowski's (Polish) House in London -- Polish emigre Directors and Their Artistic Failures -- Blue-Collar Refugees on the Brink of Homicidal Insanity -- French-Polish Paper Marriages (and Their Dramatic Ending) -- Behind a "Glass Curtain": Problematising Solidarity-Era Emigration -- The Late 1980s: Blending the Topical and the Historical -- References -- 6. Building Capitalism With(out) a Human Face: Polish Migrants in Post-Communist Film (1990 -- 2004) -- Leaving the "Paris Pavement": From Exile to Labour Migration -- Zbigniew Zamachowski Comes Back (with a Vengeance) -- Introducing the Geopolitical Parameters of Integration and Reconstruction: Houses, Windows and Scaffolds -- Modernisation Losers, the Homo Sovieticus and Neoliberal Entrepreneurs -- Questioning (and Reinstalling) Domesticity: Degrees of Nostalgic Restoration -- The German Case: Divided and Dysfunctional Families in the Aftermath of Unification -- The Austrian Twist: Capitalism Without a Human Face -- Windscreens and (Candid) Cameras: The Voyeuristic Italian Gaze -- Old and New Polish Migrations: Solidarity in the Age of Neoliberalisation and Globalisation -- References -- 7. Modernisation Through Europeanisation? Polish "Free Movers" in Post-enlargement Film (2005 -- 2017) -- The Polish Film Institute (2005 -- ) and the Rise of Co-productions with Polish Input -- Conquering the British Isles (Post-enlargement, Pre-Brexit) -- (Not) Climbing up the Ladder: Poland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine -- Becoming Unmarked (and Unaccented)? White-Collar Poles in the New Europe -- Continuing the Post-1989 Paradigm: Diagnosis and (Restorative) Potential -- Queering Polish Migration: Non-fixed Identities and "Residual" Otherness -- Restoring the Moral Balance: Parallel Stories, Parallel Experiences -- Polish "Parent" Actors, Hyphenated Filmmakers and Intergenerational Bonding -- From Polanski to Pawlikowski: Autobiographical Inscription, Polish Contexts and White Otherness -- References -- 8. Conclusion: The Great Emigration(s) Revisited -- References. |
| Series Title: | Palgrave European film and media studies. |
| Responsibility: | Kris Van Heuckelom. |
Abstract:
This study explores the representation of international migration on screen and how it has gained prominence and salience in European filmmaking over the past 100 years. Polish Migrants in European Film 1918-2017 takes the reader through a wide range of genres, from interwar musicals to Cold War defection films;
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