No. 134 (2026): Film and Cinema Historiography

No. 134 (2026): Film and Cinema Historiography

The production of the issue was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

Editorial

Karolina Kosińska

published: 2026-06-30

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Shaping the Narrative

Film Archive Fever: The Archival Turn in Polish Film Studies and the Prospects of Digital Film Historiography

Miłosz Stelmach

6-34

published: 2026-06-30

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From the Peripheries and Margins Toward Film Historiography: Archival Gaps as a Space of Artistic Intervention

Tomasz Adamski

35-56

published: 2026-06-30

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Producing the Avant-Garde: Toward a Materialist History of the Historiography of New American Cinema

Łukasz Kiełpiński

57-84

published: 2026-06-30

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Supplementing the Narrative

False Start: The Fate of Jerzy Toeplitz’s Book “Sztuka filmowa. Wczoraj, dziś i jutro” (“Film Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”, 1949)

Monika Talarczyk

86-112

published: 2026-06-30

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Between Leaving the Church and Leaving the Factory: The Dispute Over the First Spanish Film

Joanna Aleksandrowicz

113-138

published: 2026-06-30

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“Quo Vadis” and the Historiography of Visual Culture: Between Film, Magic Lantern, and Postcards

Jakub Kłeczek

139-156

published: 2026-06-30

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Writing a History Through Film

Failed Memory Reconsolidations: Spectres of Aboriginal Life in Ivan Sen’s “Limbo”

Kamila Żyto

158-184

published: 2026-06-30

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Raed Andoni and Rithy Panh’s Performative Documentaries as an Exercise in Critical Historiography

Natasza Korczarowska

185-212

published: 2026-06-30

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Books on Film

Solidarity: A Catalogue of Uses and Abuses

Iwona Kurz

213-220

published: 2026-06-30

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From Mystery Play to Multiplex: The History and Forms of the Passion Film

Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek

221-229

published: 2026-06-30

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Table of Contents in German

231

published: 2026-06-30

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Table of Contents in French

232

published: 2026-06-30

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The project Publishing of “Kwartalnik Filmowy” in 2025 in paper version is financially supported by the Polish Film Institute under the operational program “Dissemination of film culture”. Agreement no. DUK.602.3.2025. Project duration: 2.01.2025-16.01.2026. The total funding value is PLN 26 000.

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The journal has been financially supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland under the “Development of scientific journals” program. Project name: Internationalization and improvement of the publishing quality of the journal “Kwartalnik Filmowy”. Agreement no. RCN/SN/0685/2021/1 of 15 December 2022. Project duration: 15.12.2022-14.12.2024. The total funding value: PLN 50 000; the total value of the project: PLN 50 000. The aim of the project was to raise the level of publishing and editing practices and to increase the international range of the journal Kwartalnik Filmowy.