Polish Migrants in European Film 1918-2017

• Main Author: Van Heuckelom, Kris (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
• Subjects: Motion pictures-European influences.; Emigration and immigration.; European Cinema and TV.; Migration.

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. Using Polish migration as a key example due to its long-standing cultural resonance across the continent, this book moves beyond a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Poles of Attraction
• 2. Polish Entertainers and Entertaining Polishness: Staging Expatriates in Interwar Cinema (1918-1939)
• 3. From Expatriation through Defection to Immigration: Polish Characters in Wartime and Cold War Film (1940-1980)
• 4. Screening (Non-)Solidarity, Now and Before: Polish Immigrants in Late Cold War Film (1980-1989)
• 5. Building Capitalism With(out) a Human Face: Polish Migrants in Post-Communist Film (1990-2004)
• 6. Modernisation through Europeanisation? Polish "Free Movers" in Post-Enlargement Film (2005-2017)
• 7. Conclusion: The Great Emigration(s) revisited.