Heroic Men and Absent Women
Natasza Korczarowska
natasza.korczarowska@uni.lodz.plUniversity of Lodz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3130-128X
Abstract
I In the book Filmowe zarządzanie pamięcią. Kino polskie 2005-2020 o historii najnowszej [Managing Memory through Film: Polish Cinema 2005-2020 on Recent History] (2022), Magdalena Urbańska analyses ‘films about history’ from the perspective of political mechanisms of collective memory management. The approach proposed by the author reflects the thesis that historical films can provide historical knowledge only about the period in which they were made. The author is interested in issues which occupied a leading place in Polish public discourse in 2005-2020 (World War II, the period of the Polish People’s Republic, Polish-Jewish relations, the role of women in society). Urbańska treats cinema – along with its entire institutionalization – as an instrument shaping a new symbolic social imaginary. From the synthesis proposed by the author, there emerges a convincing picture of cinema entangled in the discourse of conservative historical politics.
Keywords:
films on history , history politics , collective memoryReferences
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Natasza Korczarowskanatasza.korczarowska@uni.lodz.pl
University of Lodz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3130-128X
Professor at the Department of Film and Audiovisual Media, Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Lodz. She specializes in the history of Polish film, contemporary European cinema, and the problems of historiophoty. She published the books Ojczyzny prywatne [Private Homelands] (2007) and Inne spojrzenie [Another Way] (2013) – the latter devoted to the images of history in the Polish feature film after 1965. Since 2008 she has cooperated with the Polish Film Institute and the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute on the educational project Academy of Polish Film.
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