Janina Falkowska

JANINA FALKOWSKA, PROFESSOR Professor Janina Falkowska teaches East-Central European and Western European cinemas at the Department of Film Studies, the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on Polish and East-Central European cinemas in journals and books related to Eastern and Central Europe. At present, Professor Falkowska is working on three new projects, one of which deals with the issues of the cinema of migration, another one with melancholia in film and the third one which deals with the interpretations of European cinemas in the context of Bakhtin’s notions of carnivalesque. She has also initiated a series of conferences about small cinemas in Europe and elsewhere in the world and has edited and contributed to two anthologies about small cinemas. Her most recent forthcoming publications include: 1. R “Small Cinemas within a Big Cinema: The Cinema of the Abject and the Cinema of Capitalist Fantasy in Poland.” At European Visions. Small Cinemas in Transition Conference, UWO, Department of Film Studies, London Ontario, June 2010. Accepted for the Post-Conference Book edited by Janelle Blankenship and Tobias Nagl 2. R “Didactic trends in Polish cinema and television of the past decade. Polish cinema and television at the time of transition from the national Poland to the European Union member. Case Study: Rancho Serial.” Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Katedra Kultury Wspolczesnej, Instytut Sztuki, PAN, Bydgoszcz 18-20 May, 2011 Accepted for the Post-Conference Book edited by Prof. Piotr Zwierzchowski 3. R “Andrzej Wajda – the Traditionalist and the Innovator” in History of Polish Literature and Culture, eds Przemyslaw Czaplinski, Joanna Nizynska and Tamara Trojanowska Accepted for the anthology. 4. R “Transcontinuities in Andrzej Wajda’s Films: Grand the Themes of Life and Death in Tatarak (Sweet Rush, 2009) and Earlier Films.” under revision