Polish Cinema From Wajda to Pawlikowski. History and Analysis

The aim of the course is to show a wide range of different tendencies existing in Polish cinema through last several decades. The work of different film directors (among others Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Wajda, Juliusz Machulski, Wojciech Jerzy Has, Paweł Pawlikowski) and their preferences for different styles, genres, topics will be discussed. The course also revises the most representative poetics in the history of Polish cinema such as Cinema of Moral or Polish Film School and situates them in political context .

What is more during the classes various masterpieces of Polish cinema will be analyzed using neoformalistic methodology. A close reading (of frames composition, scenes construction and storytelling schemes) will be used to indicate what makes cinema a distinct artistic medium