Film as an Event
Abstract
Ilona Copik’s monograph Topografie i krajobrazy. Filmowy Śląsk [Topographies and Landscapes. Silesia in Film] (2017) offers the reader a comprehensive approach to the issue of “Silesia on film” in the perspective of the region’s cultural geography. For the object of consideration, the author chooses “topographic” films, i.e. films in which the place depicted on the screen is the resultant of conscious creative activities and evokes a specific strategy regarding space in various contexts. Copik’s book presents a satisfying, comprehensive, original and inspiring, and often cognitively sophisticated, film image of Silesia. By showing the liveliness of film practices related to Upper Silesian film representations, she demonstrates with all her power that dealing with Silesian cinema means touching sensitive cultural issues, just as the combination of methods and research tools used in the work fortunately serves the recognition of film topography and landscapes.
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Silesia, Ilona Copik, topography, landscapeReferences
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Andrzej Gwóźdźkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Silesia in Katowice Poland
Profesor zwyczajny na Uniwersytecie Śląskim, gdzie kieruje Zakładem Filmoznawstwa i Wiedzy o Mediach. Przez wiele lat był również pracownikiem naukowo-dydaktycznym Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, a także profesorem gościnnym uniwersytetów w Konstancji i Szanghaju oraz wykładowcą uczelni w Holandii, Czechach, Niemczech i na Łotwie. Interesuje się głównie teorią filmu i nowych mediów oraz antropologią obrazowości. Autor monografii Obok kanonu. Tropami kina niemieckiego (2011); pomysłodawca i redaktor kilkudziesięciu antologii i tomów zbiorowych z zakresu teorii mediów, historii myśli filmowej, dziejów kina na Górnym Śląsku oraz poświęconych twórcom filmowym. W ostatnich latach ukazały się m.in.: Film als Baustelle. Das Kino und seine Paratexte (2009), Kino po kinie. Film w kulturze uczestnictwa (2010), Kino Hanny Schygulli (2015). W latach 2005-2009 prezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Kulturoznawczego; w latach 2006-2014 redaktor naczelny kwartalnika „Kultura Współczesna”; inicjator i wiceprezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań nad Filmem i Mediami (od 2015).
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