Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities.

Frances Guerin teaches film and visual culture at University of Kent. She is author of A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (2005), Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany (2012), The Truth is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting (2018), all University of Minnesota Press. Her most recent book Jacqueline Humphries (2022) was published by Lund Humphries. Magda Szcze.niak is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. Author of Normy widzialno.ci. To.samo.. w czasach transformacji [Norms of Visuality. Identity in Times of Transition, 2016] and Poruszeni. Awans i emocje w socjalistycznej Polsce [Feeling Moved. Upward Mobility and Emotions in Socialist Poland, 2023].