The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema

Departing from standard histories, this book draws on the theory of excess in film to provide a re—examination of Polish cinema history, following emancipatory impulses that emerged in Polish culture between the great crisis of 1968 and the conservative revolution of the Solidarity movement in the 1980s.

Employing a transnational, queer, and decolonial lens, Sebastian Jagielski argues that beyond the binary of state—endorsed and official 'opposition' media, there exists a range of subversive...