Introduction.- Part 1: Musicals.- Chapter 1 - Interwar musicals.- Chapter 2 - Musicals of state socialist period.- Chapter 3 - Postcommunist musicals.- Part 2: Music Documentaries.- Chapter 4 - Documenting the history of Polish popular music.- Chapter 5 - Documenting life and work of popular music stars.- Part 3: Biopics.- Chapter 6 - Cinematic biopics.- Chapter 7 - Television series about popular music stars.- Part 4: Music Videos.- Chapter 8 - ‘Music videos before music videos’.- Chapter 9 - Music videos of the 1980s.- Chapter 10 - Music videos in postcommunist Poland.
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over thirty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music. They include Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema (2017) and Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm (Palgrave, 2016). Mazierska's work has been translated into over twenty languages. She is principal editor of the Routledge journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.