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Informationen zum Autor The book Steward is best described as eclectic and eccentric. No surprise the work written through him should follow suit. By trade a retired risk manager who showed businesses how to improve benefits and coverage and lower cost using proper insurance risk tools. For that often ignored dismissed and ridiculed because the treatment did not follow acceptable norms. Life has taught to be different and wrong is forgivable but to be different and right is inexcusable.A long quest to find the great truth of insurance plagued most of the first part of my career. Sought it through various insurance industry credentials then finally into law school at middle age. Somehow Excalibur existed and needed to be found.One night this Steward awoke from a nightmare drenched in sweat and knew the quest had ended. The sword was in possession. A beautiful golden sword inscribed. The inscription read that the great truth of insurance is that it is neither great nor true. Twenty plus years of an endless quest ending in this. I wept and have never been the same.I suspect this work may be a proximate result of that moment. You decide. Klappentext When the Lumiere brothers introduced the motion picture in 1895, Poland was a divided and suffering nation--yet Polish artists found their way into the new world of cinema. Boleslaw Matuszewski created his first documentary films in 1896, and Poland's first movie house was established in 1908. Despite war and repression, Polish cinema continued to grow and to reach for artistic heights. The twentieth century closed with new challenges, but a new generation of Polish filmmakers stood ready to meet them. Here is a complete history of the Polish cinema through the end of the twentieth century, with special attention to political and economic contexts. Zusammenfassung Presents a history of the Polish cinema through the end of 20th century! with special attention to political and economic contexts. This book includes a filmography providing cast and crew information for more than 500 Polish films! and information about the translation of titles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction I. The Silent1. Filmmakers Without a Country 2. Theories and Experiments 3. Poland on the World Scene, 1920-1930 II. Poland Speaks: Sound Films, 1930-19404. Adjustment to Sound 5. Films and Their Makers III. World War II and the Postwar Years6. The War 7. New Times, New Ideas 8. Postwar Directors IV. Renaissance9. The Backdrop, 1968-1980 10. Unfulfilled Promises 11. Three Directors of Note 12. The Comet and the Sun 13. Totalitarian Nightmare, 1981-1985 14. Cut! Dissolve to Fade-Out Filmography by Grazyna Kudy Appendix 1:Notes on Title Translations Appendix 2: The Albany Catalogue: Polish Films Passed Through the New York State Department of Education, 1921-1965 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
