Sebastian Jagielski is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is the author of Masquerades of Masculinity: Homosocial Desire in Polish Cinema (in Polish, 2013) and the prize-winning Interrupted Emancipations: The Politics of Excess in the Polish Cinema of 1968–1982 (in Polish, 2021). His articles have been published in Studies in European Cinema, East European Politics and Societies and Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Sebastian Jagielski’s The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema is a wonderful book – and an important one. On the one hand, it is a thorough and dense study of subversive and radical film in 1970s and 1980s Poland; on the other, it is a plea that, in times like these, there can be no excess of emancipatory forces in art.

• IntroductionI The haunting of the nation1.The transnational body in 19682.Queer Jesus3.A twisted worldII Scandalous feminism1.Emancipation as an experiment2.Sexual shock 3.Critical fetishismIII Class masquerades1.The return of the repressed2.A slave rebellion3.A scream in a freeze-frameConclusionEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Sebastian Jagielski is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is the author of Masquerades of Masculinity: Homosocial Desire in Polish Cinema (in Polish, 2013) and the prize-winning Interrupted Emancipations: The Politics of Excess in the Polish Cinema of 1968–1982 (in Polish, 2021). His articles have been published in Studies in European Cinema, East European Politics and Societies and Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Sebastian Jagielski’s The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema is a wonderful book – and an important one. On the one hand, it is a thorough and dense study of subversive and radical film in 1970s and 1980s Poland; on the other, it is a plea that, in times like these, there can be no excess of emancipatory forces in art.

• IntroductionI The haunting of the nation1.The transnational body in 19682.Queer Jesus3.A twisted worldII Scandalous feminism1.Emancipation as an experiment2.Sexual shock 3.Critical fetishismIII Class masquerades1.The return of the repressed2.A slave rebellion3.A scream in a freeze-frameConclusionEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Sebastian Jagielski is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is the author of Masquerades of Masculinity: Homosocial Desire in Polish Cinema (in Polish, 2013) and the prize-winning Interrupted Emancipations: The Politics of Excess in the Polish Cinema of 1968–1982 (in Polish, 2021). His articles have been published in Studies in European Cinema, East European Politics and Societies and Studies in Eastern European Cinema.

Sebastian Jagielski’s The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema is a wonderful book – and an important one. On the one hand, it is a thorough and dense study of subversive and radical film in 1970s and 1980s Poland; on the other, it is a plea that, in times like these, there can be no excess of emancipatory forces in art.

• IntroductionI The haunting of the nation1.The transnational body in 19682.Queer Jesus3.A twisted worldII Scandalous feminism1.Emancipation as an experiment2.Sexual shock 3.Critical fetishismIII Class masquerades1.The return of the repressed2.A slave rebellion3.A scream in a freeze-frameConclusionEndnotesBibliographyIndex