Parafiction Around the World

So after today's lecture I was doing some reading for another class I'm taking about Polish cinema.  Over the semester we've watched a dozen depressing films about Communism, repression, and other sad Polish things.  This week, though, we got to watch a Polish gangster film ala Tarantino and Coppola.  Which was a nice change of pace, for starters.  But as I was doing my readings for said film, I found an interesting fact.  Today we talked about how even though paracinema makes a lot of money, they are rarely (if ever) Oscar winners.  Gangster films and other genre films (HELLO PARACINEMA) became SUPER popular post-1980s in Poland, and many even won some of the highest awards there.  So yeah, thought that was pretty cool.