Rafał Syska

Who is Rafał Syska?

Rafał Syska is a Polish film historian and writer. He is an associate professor in the Audiovisual Arts Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. At the beginning of his career he was specialized in the phenomenon of violence in cinema, then he focused on strategies of authorship in American cinema. At present he is an expert of the contemporary author cinema, especially its neo-modernism tendencies.

He published a book upon Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos Poetry of Picture. He was also editor of the dictionary Film Dictionary and now he is a co-editor of a numerous-volume books: Masters of American Cinema and History of Cinema.

At the Audiovisual Arts Department, he conducts lectures in courses: Film interpretation, History of world cinema and Ways of contemporary cinema. Twice he has done the research in United States, financed by Polish Ministry of Science.