Elżbieta Ostrowska teaches film in the Department of Media and Audiovisual Culture, University of Łódź, Poland. She has published numerous articles on film history and women in cinema. Her books include Kino ma sto lat (A Hundred Years of Cinema, co-editor, 1998), Gender in Film and the Media: East-West Dialogues (co-editor with Elżbieta Oleksy and Michael Stevenson, 2000), Przestrzeń filmowa (Cinematic Space, 2000), Gender w kinie europejskim i mediach (Gender in the European Cinema and Media, 2001), Gender-FIlm-Media (co-editor with Elżbieta Oleksy, 2001), and The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda: The Art of Irony and Defiance (co-editor with John Orr, 2003).