Marek Haltof (Józef Marek Haltof,[1] born 1957 in Cieszyn, Poland,[2]) is a professor of film studies.[1] specializing in the cultural histories of Polish and Australian film.
He studied at the University of Silesia (Uniwersytet Śląski) in Poland and at Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide.[2] He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the University of Alberta with a Ph.D. dissertation When Cultures Collide: The Cinema of Peter Weir.[1] He received his habilitation in 2001 for Autor i kino artystyczne. Przypadek Paula Coxa (Author and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox) from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[1]
For several years he has taught at universities in Canada, including the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, and since 2001 he is a professor at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.[2][3] He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the 2012 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book in Film Studies for his Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (2012.[4] In 2018 he was honored for Excellence in Scholarship at NMU.[5]
Haltof established himself as one of the leading voices on Polish cinema. Film critic Michał Oleszczyk writes that Haltof is one of the two Polish-born scholars leading the field of Polish films studies outside Poland (with the other one being Ewa Mazierska). According to Oleszczyk, Haltof's Polish Cinema: A History (2019) is a "comprehensive, reliable" and "groundbreaking work," which "delivers rich, basic information in ways that are both enjoyable and intelligible for foreign readers."[6] The same critic describes Haltof's Screening Auschwitz (2018) as "one of the finest single film monographs on the subject of Polish film - and perhaps one of the finest monographs on any significant work of cinema."[7] Screening Auschwitz received the 2019 Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.[8][9]
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