TY - JOUR
TI - Women from Galicia and the Polish Film Culture of 1920s and 1930s 
AU - Radkiewicz, Małgorzata
TI - Women from Galicia and the Polish Film Culture of 1920s and 1930s 
AB - 
	The text examines forms of participation of women from Galicia (Kraków and Lwów) in Polish film culture that started to develop dynamically after 1918. There were several different occupations for women who tried to work for the film industry, including being actresses, owners or managers of cinemas but also film critics. Moreover, the early decades of 20th century was the time of emerging of women’s spectatorship, and film popular culture – commercialized and popularized by yellow press and film magazines.

	Closer examination of biographies of Zofia Batycka from Lwów and Maria Malicka from Kraków provides documents and visual materials, illustrating development of Polish star system and on the other hand of women’s professional experience. Other interesting sources of information about women and early cinema in Poland are film critics wrote by women who as Stefania Zahorska or Magdalena Samozwaniec were modern, independent women, educated and open-minded. Their memories and essays can be considered both as a documentation of film history but also of women’s history (and women’s spectatorship).
	 
VL - 2014
IS - Issue 3 (21)
PY - 2014
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 336
EP - 352
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.13.029.3187
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/galicyjskie-kobiety-w-polskiej-kulturze-filmowej-lat-20-i-30-xx-wieku
KW - modernism
KW - women
KW - cinema
KW - star system
KW - popular culture
KW - emancipation
KW - film criticism