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Marek Kosma Cieśliński – PhD in the

human-ities, film expert, university teacher. A specialist in communication, he deals with the problems of persuasion and manipulation in the media. He is interested in film models of the use of the heritage industry. Author of several mon-ographs, in 2016 he published the book Polska Kronika Filmowa. Podglądanie PRL-u. He has published articles in such journals as “Kwartal-nik Filmowy”. ORCID 0000-0002-5687-2559.

Adam Domalewski – doctor of Arts, and

As-sistant Professor at the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at Adam Mickiewicz Uni-versity in Poznań. Graduate of film and theater studies, He is interested in film and religion studies, and European diasporic cinema in the twenty-first century. He has published papers in a number of Polish journals, including “Kwar-talnik Filmowy”, “Images”, and “Ekrany”. OR-CID 0000-0002-4313-5146.

Barbara Lena Gierszewska – film expert,

pro-fessor at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, member of the Programme and Scientific Council of the Polish National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute. She specialises in the history of cinema, film criticism and audiovisual communication. She is also interested in the literature, culture and art of Lviv in the first half of the 20th century. Author of books, among others: Czasopiśmien-nictwo filmowe w Polsce do 1939 (2006), Kino i film we Lwowie do 1939 roku (2006) and the anthol-ogies Mniszkówna i co dalej… w polskim kinie (2001), Polski film fabularny 1918–1939. Recenzje (2012) and Od “Sodomy i Gomory” do “Pépé le Moko”. Film zachodnioeuropejski w polskiej prasie 1918–1939 (2012). ORCID 0000-0002-3485-1319.

Marek Hendrykowski – full professor at the

Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. A film and media expert, semiotician, researcher of

contemporary culture, He is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently: Semiotyka twarzy [Semiotics of Face] (2017), Drugie wejrzenie. Analizy i interpretacje [Sec-ond Sight. Analyses and Interpretations] (2018), Ogród Europy. Eseje z semiotyki i antropologii kultury Starego Kontynentu [The Garden of Eu-rope. Essays on Semiotics and Anthropology of Culture of the Old Continent] (2018), Polska sz-koła filmowa [Polish Film School] (2018), Short. Małe formy filmowe [Short. Small Film Forms] (2019), Narracja w filmie i ruchomych obrazach [Narrative in Films and Moving Images] (2019). Marek Hendrykowski is a founder and senior editor of the magazine “Images. The Interna-tional Journal of Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Culture” He is also a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAiKS, the Polish Film Academy and the European Film Acade-my (EFA). ORCID 0000-0002-7180-9902.

Zbigniew Kloch – prof. dr hab., employee of

UW and IBL PAN. Author of works in the field of history and the theory of literature, expert in social communication, semiotics and the semiotics of culture, and sign theory. He has published, among other works: Poezja pierwszej wojny. Tradycja i konwencje (1985), Spory o język (1995), Odmiany dyskursu. Semiotyka życia pub-licznego w Polsce po 1989 roku (2006), Kultura doświadczenia codziennego. Semiotyczne aspek-ty codzienności (2014). He currently deals with the margins of contemporary culture and the changes that have taken place in contemporary Polish culture over the last thirty years. Author of works on current public discourse and com-munication strategies in the speech of Polish politicians. ORCID 0000-0002-7832-0368.

Karolina Kostyra – film studies scholar, PhD

candidate in the Institute of Culture Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her publi-cations concern teen movies and coming-of-age narratives in cinema. She published the mono-graph Wiosenna bujność traw. Obrazy przyrody w filmach o dorastaniu (2019). She was singled

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out in the XXII edition of Krzysztof Mętrak’s Award for young film critics. ORCID 0000-0002-4983-9195.

Krzysztof Kozłowski – film and theatre expert.

Employed as a professor at the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts of Adam Mickie-wicz University in Poznań. He deals with film aesthetics and theory, the history of American and German cinema, the history of European theatre from the 16th to 19th century, film mu-sic, media history and theory. He is the author and editor of domestic and foreign publications. The most important of these include: Teatr i re-ligia sztuki. “Parsifal” Richarda Wagnera (2004), Barry Lyndon (2006), Richard Wagner, Drama-turgia opery. Wybór pism z lat 1871–1879, intro-duction and editor with Anna Igielska (2009), Szekspir. Teoria lancasterska – domysły i fakty, editor with Tomasz Kowalski (2012), Stanley Kubrick. Filmowa polifonia sztuk (2013), Werner Faulstich, Estetyka filmu. Badania nad filmem science fiction “Wojna światów” (1953/1954) Byro-na HaskiByro-na, translation, introduction and editor (2017). ORCID 0000-0002-2736-044X.

Marcin Maron – graduate of PWSFTviT in

Łódź; holder of a postdoctoral degree conferred by Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts at UMCS in Lublin, where he lectures on photography and the history of film. Author of the following books: Romantyzm i kino. Idee i wyobrażenia romantyczne w filmach polskich reżyserów z lat 1947–1990 [Romanticism and Cinema. Romantic Ideas in Films by Polish directors in the Years 1947–1990] (2019; nominated for the Polish Society of Film and Media Studies award in 2020); Mieczysław Jahoda. Fenomeny światła [Mieczysław Jahoda. Phenomena of Light] (with biographic note by A.M. Leśniewska-Zagrodz-ka; 2019); Dramat czasu i wyobraźni. Filmy Wo-jciecha J. Hasa [Drama of Time and Imagination. Films by W.J. Has] (2010; nominated for the B. Michałek award in 2010), co-author of the book Zdjęcia: Jerzy Lipman [Shooting: Jerzy Lipman] (ed. T. Lubelski, 2005), and author of

many articles concerning the connections be-tween film, literature and philosophy. One such lecture in the Polish Film Academy (Warsaw, Łódź, Kielce). Since 2019, he has been a member of the Program Council of the Polish Society of Film and Media Studies (PTBFM). ORCID 0000-0003-1753-2575.

Daria Mazur – Assistant Professor in the

De-partment of Contemporary Culture at Kazimi-erz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Her research interests include connections of art, history of ideas, religion and culture; the history of Polish cinema and Yiddish cinema; the testimonies and reception of cultural texts; processes connected with the ideologization of artistic works; religious motifs in Polish film and literature. Author of: Między Wscho-dem a ZachoWscho-dem. Horyzonty aksjologiczne lit-eratury europejskiej w lekturze Józefa Czapsk-iego (2004); Dybuk (2007); Waszyński’s „The Dybbuk” (2009); Realizm socpaxowski (2013). Co- editor of the series Kino polskie wczoraj i dziś, Przestrzeń w kulturze współczesnej. Cur-rently, she works in post-secular discourse in modern Polish cinema. ORCID 0000-0003-1096-6338.

Iga Pękala – PhD student at the Institute of

Jour-nalism and Social Communication at the Fac-ulty of Philology at the University of Wrocław. Graduate of Cultural Studies (BA studies) and Journalism and Social Communication (MA studies). Research interests: new waves in cine-ma, author’s cinema and film theory (especially the aspect of the sensual perception of a film work). ORCID 0000-0001-6520-3122.

Krystian Przybylski  – graduate of

theolo-gy, cultural studies and film studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. His area of special interest is the transcendental style in film, especially its manifestations in contem-porary Romanian cinema, the so-called New Wave. Currently, he is exploring this phenom-enon as a PhD student, developing his project in cooperation with the Institute of Film, Media

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and Audiovisual Arts at AMU. ORCID 0000-0001-5717-7702.

Hanna Przybysz – MA, a graduate of

Individ-ual Inter-area Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University. Her Master’s thesis prepared at the Institute of Philosophy and at the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts, relates to film theory as a neuroesthetic cognitive-emotional stimulus. Currently, she continues her research at the Faculty of Philosophy AMU. ORCID 0000-0002-4049-4653.

Wojciech Sitek – PhD, Institute of Journalism

and Social Communication, University of Wro-claw. His academic interests include the ideo-logical structure of American cinema and video games, and also the social phenomena of video cassettes. He has published articles in academic journals (i.e. in the “Film Quarterly”, “Contem-porary Culture. Theory, Interpretation, Practice” and “Studia de Cultura”). ORCID 0000-0002-4550-7679.

Paweł Sitkiewicz – film and media historian,

professor at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). He has published on such topics as animation, early and silent cinema, history of movie-going and graphic novels. Author of four books, includ-ing: Polska szkoła animacji (Polish School of Ani-mation, 2011) and Gorączka filmowa. Kinomania w międzywojennej Polsce (Cinematic Fever. Mov-ie-going in Pre-War Poland, 2019). Co-author of Powieści graficzne. Leksykon (Graphic Novels: A Lexicon, 2015, ed. by S. J. Konefał). ORCID 0000-0003-2039-9154.

Bogusław Skowronek  – a  professor with

a Ph.D., titular professor at the Institute of

Polish Philology of the Pedagogical University of Krakow. His professional interests are me-diolinguistics, cultural linguistics, film studies, and media studies. Author of more than 120 research papers and six books, such as Koncep-tualizacje filmu i jego oglądania w języku mło-dzieży. Studium kognitywno-kulturowe (2007), Mediolingwistyka. Wprowadzenie (2013), Język w  filmie. Ujęcie mediolingwistyczne (2020). ORCID 0000-0002-4049-4653.

Grażyna Świętochowska  – teaches and

re-searches Film Studies at the University of Gdansk. She is the Editor-in-Chief of “Pano-ptikum”, the peer-reviewed academic journal on audiovisual culture. Her latest academic interests involve the shared field of cinema, art and design, especially the history of audiovisual culture of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. ORCID 0000-0002-0241-1722.

Dominik Wierski – PhD in the humanities,

cultural animator, and teacher. Assistant Pro-fessor at the Institute of Film, Media and Audio-visual Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in the 2018/2019 academic year. Inter-ested in Polish and American film and sports history. Author of the book Sport w polskim kinie 1944–1989. He has also published works in the collective volumes Gefilte film. Wątki żydowskie w kinie (parts 2, 3 and 4, ed. J. Pre-izner), Od Mickiewicza do Masłowskiej. Adap-tacje filmowe literatury polskiej (ed. T. Lubelski) and Aleksander Jackiewicz (ed. B. Giza and P. Zwierzchowski). Co-editor (with P. Zwier-zchowski) of the book Kino, którego nie ma. Co-worker of the edukacjafilmowa.pl project. For many years, programme manager of the AFF-Era Filmowa and DKF “Niespodzianka”