A must-read for all cinema lovers, written by specialists from the University of Łódź. This comprisal of cinema knowledge will provide the reader with all he has to know about cinema art. It provides basic information about cinema culture in its historical and theoretical dimension. This publication allows the viewer to watch a film fully and conscientiously. It gives all the important information about different cinema types and genres, the big directors, cinema industry, artistic measures used in a film. It also has an overview of selected films acting as representatives of certain times, phenomena and schools. A seperate chapter is dedicated to Polish cinema and its famous persons. An important part of the book describes the problem of literature adaptation.