J. Marek Haltof - NMU English

M.A., University of Silesia, Poland
M.A., Flinders University of South Australia
Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada
Habilitation, Jagiellonian University, Poland
mhaltof@nmu.edu

Marek Haltof joined the faculty of NMU in 2001. He has published several books in English and Polish on the cultural histories of Central European and Australian film.

• Introduction to Film, Film History, History of Film Theory
• Central European Cinema, Authorship in Cinema
• Adaptations, Film and Propaganda/Politics/Memory
• History of Polish and Australian national cinemas
• Politics of remembrance in Central Europe
• Film and the Holocaust (Central European context)
• Authorship in Cinema (Kieślowski, Wajda, Polański, Weir, Paul Cox)

His recent books include Polish Cinema: A History (2019), Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration (2018), Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema (2015, first edition in 2007), Polish Film and the Holocaust:  Politics and Memory (2012), The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance (2004), and Polish National Cinema (2002). In 2003, he co-edited The New Polish Cinema. His earlier books include Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide (1996), Australian Cinema: On the Screen Construction of Australia (in Polish, 2005), and Authorship and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox (in Polish, 2001). He is also the author of three other books published in Poland; two short novels, Max is Great (1988) and Duo Nowak (1996), and a collection of essays on American genre cinema, The Cinema of Fears (1992). His works have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Czech, Polish, and Spanish.