Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

Janina Falkowska is a retired professor from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario (Canada) and Professor at the University of Economics and Humanities (WSEH) in Bielsko-Biala (Poland). She specializes in East-Central European and Western European cinemas and has published extensively on Polish and East-Central European cinemas in journals and books related to Eastern and Central Europe. She has initiated a series of conferences about small cinemas in Europe and organized workshops and conferences on European cinemas in Canada.Krzysztof Loska is Professor of Film and Media and the Director of the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He has written extensively on media, popular culture, film theory and Japanese cinema in various journals and collective works. He is member of the board of Polish Society of Cultural Studies, Vice-President of Polish Society for Film and Media Studies, and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the bi-monthly «Ekrany».

• Small cinemas – European cinemas – Mockumentary – Japanese avant-garde – Migration and diasporas – Gender stereotypes in East Central Europe – Ethnic stereotypes – Revisionist historiography – Post-industrial landscape – «The excluded»