“War Beading up into a Red Dot”: Autobiographical Discourse in Andrzej Żuławski’s “The Third Part of the Night”

Monika Maszewska-Łupiniak

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Abstract

The author is mainly interested in the chosen aspect of autobiographic dispute, namely a film autobiographism understood as a defined communication attitude of the film author and the audience reaction generated by it. In this paper Maszewska-Łupiniak discusses autobiographism included in the fictional film narration of The Third Part of the Night by Andrzej Żuławski. His film, presenting a part of a family history, matches the autobiographic dispute. As a text about Holocaust, it creates a universal message – the duality in the film structure makes us think about the relations between a creator and his work, between the ethical conditions of that relation. All that is reflected in the style and poetics of the film, which, in turn, makes the receiver of the story adopt a distant attitude. [originally published in Polish in Kwartalnik Filmowy 2011, no. 73, pp. 163-174]


Keywords:

Andrzej Żuławski, autobiography, Holocaust

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2013-12-31

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Maszewska-Łupiniak, M. (2013) ““War Beading up into a Red Dot”: Autobiographical Discourse in Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘The Third Part of the Night’”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (Special Issue), pp. 95–108. doi: 10.36744/kf.1895.

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Monika Maszewska-Łupiniak 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland

Doctor of the Humanities, graduate of Film Studies from the Jagiellonian University (Krakow). She specialises in the history of Polish film and humanities education in the new media. Co-author of the educational project “School Film Library” run by the Polish Film Institute. Her papers were published i.a. in the volumes Kino polskie w trzynastu sekwencjach [Polish Cinema in Thirteen Sequences] (2005), Kino polskie jako kino narodowe [Polish Cinema as a National Cinema] (2009), Kino polskie wobec drugiej wojny światowej [Polish Cinema and the Second World War] (2011), Adaptacje literatury amerykańskiej [Adaptations of American Literature] (2011), Między filmem a teatrem [Between Film and Theatre] (2012), Polskie piśmiennictwo filmowe [Polish Writings on Film] (2013); co-author of entries in Encyklopedia kina [Encyclopedia of Cinema] (2010). Author of the book Rzeczywistość filmowa Stanisława Różewicza [The Film Reality of Stanisław Różewicz] (2009).



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