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Roman Polanski'nin Apartman Üçlemesi'nde kent hayatının bir sembolü olan apartmanlar, dışarısının tacizkar ve ihlalci yapılanmasını içeriye sızdırarak ruhsal aygıtı şekillendiren "tekinsiz" yapılar olarak ele alınmıştır. Apartman... more
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      Sigmund FreudAbjectionJulia KristevaRoman Polanski
Celem artykułu jest rozpatrzenie problemu odzwierciedlonej/wykreowanej w polskim kinie przełomu lat 80. i 90. przestrzeni społeczno-kulturowej pierwszego etapu transformacji ustrojowej. Przedmiotem analizy są wybrane filmy z lat... more
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      Film StudiesPolish Cinema
With a view to studying the social and institutional practices related to the post-1989 approaches to film animation under socialism, this article addresses the transformation of the state-owned Se-Ma-For Film Studio in Łódź and the... more
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      Film StudiesAnimationMuseum StudiesHeritage Studies
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesEastern European StudiesEuropean Studies
From the mid-1970s to the end of the state-socialist regimes in Central Europe in 1989, the Czech scriptwriter and dramaturg Pavel Hajný successfully fostered parallel careers in two national film industries: between 1975 and 1989, Hajný... more
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      ScriptwritingCultural Transfer StudiesCzech & Slovak StudiesCzech Cinema
Przedmiotem artykułu jest film Zapis zbrodni (reż. Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, 1974), którego scenariusz bazował na prawdziwej historii Konstantego Federa i Janusza Dębińskiego – w 1972 r. zamordowali oni w celach rabunkowych dwóch... more
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      Film StudiesPolish FilmCinemaFilm and Media Studies
This article examines a wave of documentary films about former shock workers (Stakhanovites) and model workers that were produced in Poland in the 1970s. These short works by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bohdan Kosiński, Marcel Łoziński, Irena... more
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      Documentary (Film Studies)Polish HistoryLabor History and StudiesDocumentary Film
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      ReligionGnosticismIntellectual HistoryCultural History
The idea for this book originated in our observation that while there is a growing body of innovative work dealing with transnationality in world cinemas, studies devoted to this phenomenon tend to omit Eastern European cinemas,... more
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      European CinemaAudience and Reception StudiesPerformanceExile Cinema
This article analyses the Muslim convert as portrayed in three post-communist Eastern European films: Vladimir Khotinenko’s A Moslem (Мусульманин, Russia, 1996), Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing (Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary/France,... more
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      TerrorismCinematic SpacePost-Soviet StudiesPolish Studies
The chapter explores the various ways in which Jewish return is manifest in recent Polish film and literature. Such returns function variously to express anxiety, loss, mourning or the recovery of lost identity, and appear in diverse... more
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      Contemporary Polish LiteraturePolish LiteraturePolish StudiesHolocaust Literature
This is the first ever international comparative study of the mythologies which popular TV series in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania – made before and after the fall of communism – disseminate in their... more
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      Eastern European StudiesPolitical TheoryCold War and CultureCold War
Autobiographical threads occupy an important place in films of Marian Marzyński and Leszek Leo Kantor. Interesting is the convergence of life experiences common to both authors. We can indicate a lot of parallelisms in biographies of both... more
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      Polish JewsMarch 1968 in PolandPolish CinemaHistory and Culture of Polish Jews
One of the key roles in the cinematic image of Łódź (the centre of Polish fi lm production in the 1950s and 1960s) was played by “Se-Ma- For” Film Studio. Th e political and economic changes that Poland underwent at the beginning of the... more
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      AnimationFilm IndustriesCritical Production StudiesFilm industry
This article discusses the concept of worlding in the cinema of Małgorzata Szumowska. Informed by philosophical theory of worlding and worldliness, by thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Gayatri Spivak, and the film... more
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      Polish FilmFeminist film theoryWorld CinemaMise-En-Scène
This book chapter discusses Walerian Borowczyk's use of art objects as well as art collecting and curating in his cinematic sexploitation strategy. Published by Bloomsbury Academic in the new edition of SHOCKING CINEMA OF THE 70S, eds.... more
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      Gender and FeminismSensationalismSexploitation filmFilm Culture
W artykule został podjęty problem "tożsamości przemieszczonej" rozumianej jako odgórny-narodowy i społecznyprojekt dla przestrzeni pojałtańskich. Chociaż jego celem była homogenizacja narodowa oraz integracja w nowych granicach... more
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      NationalismDisplacementPRLPolish Cinema
The article is an analysis of the reception of the film Clergy (Kler) directed by Wojciech Smarzowski in four of the most popular Polish weekly magazines. The author analysed the texts that appeared in Polityka, Newsweek, Sieci and Do... more
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      Cinema StudiesPolish CinemaPolish Press
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      Second World WarPolish Cinema
Polish People’s Republic (PRL) in the late 1970s saw an increased alliance among, and indeed, a blending of, workers and intellectuals, young and old, women and men, actively struggling against the state. A new kind of solidarity emerged... more
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      MarxismPolish HistoryMaurice BlanchotGeorges Bataille
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      Cultural StudiesMemory StudiesMigration StudiesPolish Cinema
La diffusion ou la divulgation de ce document et de son contenu via Internet ou tout autre moyen de communication ne sont pas autorisées hormis dans un cadre privé. Le film Brueghel, le moulin et la croix (Lech Majewski, 2011) donne vie... more
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      Film StudiesJan Brueghel the ElderCinema and PaintingHistory of Arts
Documentary animation is a hybrid cinematic form, the history of which goes back over 100 years. Earlier such films were rather a rarity, while lately they appear on screens more and more often. Using numerous examples, the article... more
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      Animated DocumentaryPolish CinemaDocumentary AnimationPolish Animation
The aim of the article is to discuss the way of representing the migration motive in Polish post-communist cinematography. The term ‘Polish post-communist cinematography’ can be defined as the collection of national films created during... more
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      Migration StudiesSocial transformation1989 in EuropePolish Cinema
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      Film StudiesFantasy (Film Studies)MedievalismContemporary Medievalism
"Fearless Vampire Killers" in the light of modern research on vampires. How much Drakula's blood has the main antagonist in his vains? In which cases does Roman Polański's narrative differs from Bram Stoker 's?
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      Horror CinemaCinemaVampire StudiesVampires
The articles author tries to prove that the experience of March 1968 had a great influence on the Polish film industry. Through the examples of Marek Piwowski's “The Cruise”, Tadeusz Konwicki's “How Far Away, How Near” and Andrzej... more
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      AntisemitismMarch 1968 in PolandPolish CinemaCinema and politics
The vast majority of documentary films relevant to the events of March ‘68 and its consequences were created after 1989, when the abolition of censorship and the opening of previously hidden archives allowed Polish filmmakers to explore... more
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      Politics and FilmMarch 1968 in PolandPropaganda FilmPolish Cinema
Piotr Szulkin made his mark in the history of cinema primarily as the author of disturbing visions of the future. His four films made between 1979 and 1985 comprised the science-fiction tetralogy, which is still one of the greatest... more
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      Science Fiction FilmPolish CinemaPostapocalyptic FictionPiotr Szulkin
The paper focuses on a characteristic of Andrzej Żuławski’s aesthetics which has been ignored by most of the critics who emphasized the impact of surrealism and the taste for provocation in his cinema. Meanwhile, the oeuvre’s French... more
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      IntermedialityAdaptationIntertextualityIntermediality In Cinema
Artykuł omawia kondycję polskiego filmu o dorastaniu/filmu inicjacyjnego (coming of movie), który w refleksji rodzimego filmoznawstwa był na ogół rozpoznany jako film dla młodzieży lub film dla dzieci i młodzieży. Autorka na licznych... more
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      Film StudiesYouth CultureFilm HistoryPolish Film
In the 1960s, Polish cinematography lost some of its leading artists, both the founders of the "Polish school" and young masters. In 1961, Andrzej Munk fell victim to a car crash. In 1967, actor No. 1 of Poland Zgibnew Cybulski died under... more
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      Film StudiesFilm AnalysisFilm HistoryCinema
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      NationalismHistorical FilmsPolish Cinema
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      DecadencePolish CinemaStanisław Przybyszewski
This paper examines industrial landscapes in Polish Cinema in the 60s. Upper Silesian scenery is considered not as a mere background but an essential element that constructs the cinematographic narration. Historic, economic, and... more
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      Film StudiesCultural LandscapesPolitical IdeologyPolish Cinema
In 1964, many decades before multilingual movies have become fashionable, a Polish director, Stanisław Lenartowicz, made a war comedy called "Giuseppe in Warsaw." It narrates the adventures of an Italian soldier who on his way home from... more
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      MultilingualismAudiovisual TranslationPolish CinemaHumour Translation
Ce séminaire de recherche part de la volonté d’interroger le rapport au temps historique dans le cinéma contemporain et dans le cinéma de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. Nous nous proposons de travailler cette question à partir de... more
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      Israel/PalestineGilles DeleuzeItalian CinemaFilm History
The paper presents an interview with Krzysztof Zanussi (born 17 June 1939), one of the most renowned award-winning Polish film directors. Some of his numerous films for television and cinema have been made in co-operation with German... more
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      Cultural Transfer StudiesGerman CinemaCoproductionPolish Cinema
This article explores the use of painting in Stanisław Wyspiański's canonical play and Andrzej Wajda's film adaptation. Both playwright and film director were originally trained as painters, and include painting prominently in their... more
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      IntermedialityPolish HistoryPolish LiteratureIntermediality In Cinema
Résumé de la thèse de doctorat de Mathieu Lericq (Aix-Marseille Université) La fin des années 1960 correspond à un moment durant lequel la cinématographie polonaise est stimulée par trois dynamiques principales : une exceptionnelle... more
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      Bodies and CultureHungarian CinemaCzech CinemaKrzysztof Kieslowski
W tomie ukazano kontakty filmowe między kinematografiami polską, czeską i słowacką. Autorzy – filmoznawcy, a zarazem bohemiści z kraju i zagranicy – podjęli zagadnienia współpracy instytucjonalnej, historii pojedynczych wspólnych... more
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      Film StudiesCzech CinemaSlovak cinemaPolish Cinema
The text explores traditions of film education, understood as education through film, in Polish film studies. Although film education has been de facto part of informal education, we can trace many initiatives aimed at making it an... more
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      Media EducationMedia LiteracyPolish FilmMedia Literacy Education
Using archival sources, movie reviews, secondary sources and films, this article examines the cinema of Jerzy Passendorfer, the founding father of action movies genre in People’s Poland, but also the staunch supporter of Władysław... more
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      Polish HistoryNationalismPolish CinemaCommunism and national question
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      Film TheoryFilm AestheticsKrzysztof KieslowskiTemporality
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      Scottish LiteratureLiterature and cinemaFilm Adaptation18th & 19th Centuries
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      Film StudiesCinemaDocumentary FilmFilm
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      Gender StudiesMichel FoucaultPolish Cinema
Abstract This paper presents polish film director Lech Majewski and discusses one of the essential themes of his work, the pursuit of paradise through the artwork, based on the example of the movie Angelus (Lech Majewski, 2001). In the... more
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      Polish HistoryPhilosophy of ArtPolish FilmPolish Studies