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Film's Feisty Femmes: Today's Polish Women

By (author) Helena Goscilo, By (author) Vincent Albarano

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It 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. Filmâ€™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 countryâ€™s filmmakingâ€”a transformation of which audiences are the primary beneficiaries. The volumeâ€™s seven chapters combine textual analysis with assessment of camerawork, situating each directorâ€™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 directorsâ€™ relationship to feminism in narratives that are unapologetically gynocentric.