Seweryn Kuśmierczyk’s Journey Into the Depths of Polish Cinema
Abstract
The text is a book review of Wyprawa bohatera w polskim filmie fabularnym [The Hero’s Expedition in Polish Feature Film] (2014) by Seweryn Kuśmierczyk. The author discusses in detail the idea of anthropological-morphological analysis proposed by the researcher, paying particular attention to the potential role of this concept in contemporary film studies. In the chapters devoted to masterpieces of Polish cinema Kuśmierczyk restores the importance of film analysis. He also shows how to read the rich and often less than obvious meanings contained in the audio-visual film form. The researcher does not stop at formalist decomposing of the works into primary elements. He links film techniques to anthropological categories. The method adopted by Kuśmierczyk can become, according to the reviewer, a starting point to further research on the field between film and cultural studies.
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Polish cinema, Seweryn Kuśmierczyk, Joseph CampbellReferences
Seweryn Kuśmierczyk, Wyprawa bohatera w polskim filmie fabularnym, Czuły Barbarzyńca Press, Warszawa 2014.
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Robert Birkholckwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Absolwent polonistyki i kulturoznawstwa na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, doktorant w Zakładzie Komparatystyki tamże. Zajmuje się kategorią narracji w filmie i literaturze. Krytyk filmowy miesięcznika „Kino”. Publikował m.in. w „Roczniku Komparatystycznym”, na „Portalu Filmowym” oraz na stronie „Culture.pl”. Współpracuje z projektem Edukacja Filmowa. Współautor książki Antropologia postaci w dziele filmowym (2015). Członek Zespołu Badań nad Filmem w Zakładzie Filmu i Kultury Wizualnej w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej UW.
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