Dr hab. Justyna Jaworska – “The Law and the Fist” and “Marriage of Convenience”

Justyna Jaworska discusses the films The Law and the Fist (Prawo i pięść) by Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski and Marriage of Convenience (Małżeństwo z rozsądku) by Stanisław Bareja. She puts them in the category of popular cinema. The former is western (“eastern”), the latter – a comedy. Jaworska discusses the attempts to introduce genre cinema into the socialist realist doctrine, as well as t…