Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

A New Way of Understanding the Political Agency of Global Art Cinema

A critical analysis of Polish cinema and literature during the transformative late Socialist period of the 1970s and 1980s. Krakus details how conceptions of time, permanence, and endings shaped major Polish artistic works. She also shows how film and literature played a major role in shaping political consciousness during this highly charged era.

Looking back through the prism of the severe economic crisis for filmmaking in the 1980s, this book trace the development of this industry in Brazil, focusing specifically on its relationship to the state.