Marek Haltof Explained

Marek Haltof (Józef Marek Haltof,[1] born 1957 in Cieszyn, Poland,[2]) is a professor of film studies.[1] specializing in the cultural histories of Polish and Australian film.

He studied at the University of Silesia (Uniwersytet Śląski) in Poland and at Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide.[2] He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. dissertation When Cultures Collide: The Cinema of Peter Weir.[1] He received his habilitation in 2001 for Autor i kino artystyczne. Przypadek Paula Coxa (Author and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox) from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1]

For several years he has taught at universities in Canada, including the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, and since 2001 he is a professor at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.[2] [3] He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the 2012 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book in Film Studies for his Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (2012.[4] In 2018 he was honored for Excellence in Scholarship at NMU.[5]

Haltof established himself as one of the leading voices on Polish cinema. Film critic Michał Oleszczyk writes that Haltof is one of the two Polish-born scholars leading the field of Polish films studies outside Poland (with the other one being Ewa Mazierska). According to Oleszczyk, Haltof's Polish Cinema: A History (2019) is a "comprehensive, reliable" and "groundbreaking work," which "delivers rich, basic information in ways that are both enjoyable and intelligible for foreign readers." The same critic describes Haltof's Screening Auschwitz (2018) as "one of the finest single film monographs on the subject of Polish film - and perhaps one of the finest monographs on any significant work of cinema."[6] Screening Auschwitz received the 2019 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.[7] [8]

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Notes and References

  1. https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/scientist?id=109514&_k=5fiw8f "dr hab. Józef Marek Haltof"
  2. http://gazetacodzienna.pl/artykul/kultura/dwudniowy-cykl-nt-holocaustu-w-ksiaznicy-cieszynskiej "Dwudniowy cykl nt. Holocaustu w Książnicy Cieszyńskiej"
  3. https://nmu.edu/english/j-marek-haltof "J. Marek Haltof, Professor"
  4. Web site: Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory.
  5. https://www.upmatters.com/news/nmu-faculty-receive-awards/ "NMU Faculty Receive Awards"
  6. Michal Oleszczyk, "On Haltof's Screening Auschwitz", Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, vol. 8 no. 1, 2020, p. 104-107.
  7. https://news.nmu.edu/haltofs-book-about-holocaust-film-honored "Haltof's Book About Holocaust Film Honored"
  8. https://networks.h-net.org/node/9669/discussions/5641297/piasa-2019-award-recipients "PIASA 2019 Award Recipients"
  9. Michał Oleszczyk, "Reviewed Work: Polish Cinema: A History", Cinéaste, vol. 44, no. 4, 2019, pp.73-75,
  10. Marek Haltof, Polish Cinema: A History, 2019,
  11. https://networks.h-net.org/node/9669/reviews/7359075/pytka-haltof-screening-auschwitz-wanda-jakubowskas-last-stage-and "Pytka on Haltof, 'Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration'"
  12. [Annette Insdorf]
  13. , ""On Haltof's Screening Auschwitz", Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, vol. 8 no. 1, 2020, p. 104-107.
  14. Matilda Mroz, "Review: Marek Haltof (2012), Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory", Film-Philosophy, 19 (2015), also here
  15. [Paul Coates (academic)|Paul Coates]
  16. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Recenzja publikacji: Marek Haltof, Polish Film and the Holocaust. Politics and Memory, 2015,, also here
  17. Steven Woodward, "The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski book review", Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 23:5, 466-472,
  18. Daniel J. Goulding, "The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski book review", Slavic Review, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2005, pp. 642 - 644
  19. Philip Cavendish, "The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski book review", The Slavonic and East European Review,Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan., 2006), pp. 129-131
  20. Stuart Liebman, Reviewed Work: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Variations on Destiny and Chance, The Polish Review, Vol. 50, No. 4 (2005), pp. 492-495
  21. https://www.kinoeye.org/02/14/skaff14.php "The cinema that is. Marek Haltof's Polish National Cinema"
  22. , "Reviewed Work: Polish National Cinema by Marek Haltof", 2003,