Warsaw, Generational Distance, and Untransmittable Memory in the Texts and Films of Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (1962–1966)

Barbara Giza is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Communication and Information Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and Deputy Head of the Research Library at the National Film Archive—Audiovisual Institute (FINA) in Warsaw. Her research concerns Polish film history within a communication studies framework, audiovisual archives and media source studies, and the institutional and censorship mechanisms of cinema in state-socialist Poland. She is the author of a monograph on Tadeusz Konwicki’s screenwriting and has published extensively on the screenwriter and director Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, including the monograph "Stawiński i wojna" (2012) and the book-length interview "Do filmu trafiłem przypadkiem" (2007). She co-edits the scholarly series “Polscy Krytycy Filmowi” (Polish Film Critics) and “Zjazdy i narady filmowe w PRL” (Film Congresses and Conferences in the Polish People’s Republic), devoted to critical source editions of Polish film culture. She is Secretary of the Board of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies (PTBnFiM) and a member of FIPRESCI. She co-directed the documentary “Hen i wojna” (Hen and the War, 2020), devoted to the writer Józef Hen, and co-wrote “Andrzej Mularczyk. Czyim ja żyłem życiem” (“Andrzej Mularczyk: Whose Life Have I Lived”, 2024).