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• Title:
  Foreign film in Poland, 1964–1975: selection, import and audience. An introduction
• Creator:
  Klejsa, Konrad
• Description:
  The topic of this article is part of the broader research project on film distribution in the People’s Republic of Poland. An important base for this text is the archival resources of the Film Polski Export and Import Company, established in 1964, the year therefore chosen as the starting point of the analysis. The point of departure is 1975, when important changes in the film import volume occurred. The article comprises of sections dedicated, respectively, to pre-selection of feature films, new releases and films in circulation. The data on the number of released titles show that in almost the entire period under study, the total number of foreign films from other ‘people’s republics’ was lower in any given calendar year than the number of films from capitalist states. However, the fact that more films from communist countries were imported to Poland did not mean that the former had larger audiences and generated greater revenues.;
  The topic of this article is part of the broader research project on lm distribution in the People’s Republic of Poland. An important base for this text is the archival resources of the Film Polski Export and Import Company, established in 1964, the year therefore chosen as the starting point of the analysis. The point of departure is 1975, when important changes in the lm import volume occurred. The article comprises of sections dedicated, respectively, to pre-selection of feature films, new releases and lms in circulation. The data on the number of released titles show that in almost the entire period under study, the total number of foreign films from other ‘people’s republics’ was lower in any given calendar year than the number of films from capitalist states. However, the fact that more films from communist countries were imported to Poland did not mean that the former had larger audiences and generated greater revenues.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pl ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Konrad Klejsa
• Date:
  2023.01.05
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł recenzowany
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 32 No. 41 (2022): The Special Issue: Film distribution and audiences; 79-98;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 32 Nr 41 (2022): The Special Issue: Film distribution and audiences; 79-98;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/36830/31588
• Subject:
  Polish culture after 1945;
  film import;
  film distribution in the Soviet bloc;
  cinema programming
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/36830
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text