The Image of an Immigrant in Films by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Abstract
The methodological starting point of the article is the concept of transnationalism as defined by Will Higbee and Song Hwee Lim, who argue that the concept not only deals with the issue of co-production and global distribution, but also applies to political, cultural and social factors, that permit a better understanding of contemporary cinema and the world around us. From this perspective Loska considers Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s films. She focuses on the problems of ethnic minorities, and speaks of the stories of political and economic refugees, and deals with matters such as racism, discrimination and multicultural societies. Two films, the short film Hanoi – Warsaw (2009) and the debut feature, filmed in Great Britain, Flying Blind (2012) are the object of analysis in the article. Using these two examples Loska shows different ways of representing immigrant issues in contemporary cinema: one is based on a poetic documentary, and implies the possibility of giving a voice to the “subordinated Other”, while the second is based on the conventions of the genre.
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transnationalism, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, ethnic minorities, refugees, racism, subordinated OtherReferences
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Krzysztof Loskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Profesor UJ, dyrektor Instytutu Sztuk Audiowizualnych tamże; zajmuje się filmem japońskim i kulturą współczesną; autor ponad stu publikacji naukowych, w tym jedenastu książek, m.in.: Dziedzictwo McLuhana. Między nowoczesnością a ponowoczesnością (2001), Hitchcock - autor wśród gatunków (2002), David Cronenberg: rozpad ciała, rozpad gatunku (2003, wspólnie z Andrzejem Pitrusem), Encyklopedia filmu science fiction (2004), Tożsamość i media. O filmach Atoma Egoyana (2006), Poetyka filmu japońskiego (2009), Kenji Mizoguchi i wyobraźnia melodramatyczna (2012), Nowy film japoński (2013).
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