The Culture of Deformed Meanings
Abstract
Helman in her review of Małgorzata Flig’s book entitled Mitotwórcza funkcja kina i literatury w kulturze stalinowskiej lat 30. XX wieku [Myth-Making Function of Cinema and Literature in the Culture of the Stalinist Era of the 1930s] (2014) focuses on the way in which the relationship between myth and ideology is presented. This is a contentious and controversial issue in the literature on the subject. Flig presents it in a very convincing manner, starting from the premise that Soviet culture was not dominated by a single ideology. Consequently she analysed its relationship with the myth already present in the shared consciousness of the society and recognised as common sense. The reviewer also points out the interesting connection between the hagiographic pattern and the model of the socialist realistic discourse, as well as the analysis of the way reality was shaped by imposing the language of power.
Keywords:
Małgorzata Flig, myth, ideology, Soviet cultureReferences
Flig, M., Mitotwórcza funkcja kina i literatury w kulturze stalinowskiej lat 30. XX wieku, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2014.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/9788376384153
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Alicja Helmankwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Historyk i teoretyk filmu, emerytowany prof. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prowadzi badania w zakresie teorii filmu i komparatystyki. Autorka ponad 20 książek, m.in.: Film faktów i film fikcji (1977), Przedmiot i metody filmoznawstwa (1985), Słownik pojęć filmowych (1991-1998), Historia semiotyki filmu, t. 1-2 (1992-1993), Twórcza zdrada. Filmowe adaptacje literatury (1998), Urok zmierzchu. Filmy Luchina Viscontiego (2002), Ten smutek hiszpański. Konteksty twórczości filmowej Carlosa Saury (2005), Odcienie czerwieni. Twórczość filmowa Zhanga Yimou (2010), Ścieżkami utraconego czasu. Twórczość filmowa Chena Kaige (2012).
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