Who's who
Dr Anna Misiak
Senior lecturer
PhD
Academic interests
Anna holds a PhD in Sociology from Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a former Fulbright Scholar at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Before coming to Falmouth in 2006, Anna had lectured in film, media, sociology, and culture studies at American Studies Centre, Warsaw University and at Warsaw Higher School for Humanities.
Since early days, when she worked in Warsaw and Prague on her graduate theses, Anna's research has always explored the interdependence between film and society. She completed numerous research projects that indirectly relate to her migrant life experience, exploring cinematic cultures of Poland, Britain and the USA. Her most recent academic interests evolve around transnational films and cinema that transgresses dominant western ideologies.
In her teaching Anna aims to awaken her film students' social and cultural sensitivity, enhancing their knowledge of the field and their film practice through serious consideration and application of intellectually challenging concepts and theories. 11 years of HE teaching career have awarded Anna with a lot of satisfaction. Numerous professional and academic successes of her students were crowned by her dissertation supervisee Jamie Isbell winning the 2010 Frank Capra Award for undergraduate film criticism.
Industry background/links
Outside academia, Anna has translated several feature films and TV series (including Green Wing) for Polish television channels and worked as a book reviewer for literary magazines. She is also an active member of Cornwall Film Festival's Steering Group.
Selected outputs
Books
- Kinematograph Controlled: Film Censorship in a Former Communist State and in Democracy. Poland and the USA: A Comparative Sociological Analysis (Kinematograf kontrolowany: Cenzura filmowa w kraju socjalistycznym i demokratycznym. Analiza socjologiczna). In Polish. (Kraków: Universitas, 2006).
Articles
- "Our Own Courtyard: Post-traumatic Polish Cinema" in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 7(3) December 2009: 237-256.
- "Not a Stupid White Man: The Democratic Context of Michael Moore's Documentaries" in Journal of Popular Film and Television no.3, vol. 33 (Fall 2005): 160-68 (in English).
- "Controversial Freedom. Elia Kazan in the American Film Industry" in Kwartalnik Filmowy (Film Quarterly) 49-50 (Summer 2005): 172-88 (in Polish).
- "Film Censorship after the Wisla Meeting" in Kwartalnik Filmowy (Film Quarterly) (Fall 2003): 92-102 (in Polish).
- "Aleksander Ford and Film Censorship in Poland after 1945" in Kinema (Fall 2003): 19-31 (in English).
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