Like many Eastern European countries, Poland has seen a succession of
divergent economic and political regimes over the last century, from
prewar "embedded liberalism," through the state socialism of the Soviet
era, to the present neoliberal moment. Its cinema has been inflected by
these changing historical circumstances, both mirroring and resisting
them. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation's
film history--from the reemergence of an independent Poland in 1918 to
the present day--through the lenses of political economy and social
class, showing how Polish cinema documented ordinary life while bearing
the hallmarks of specific ideologies.