Description of Customs of the Regulars of the Film Atlantis
Wojciech Świdziński
woyciesz@gmail.comThe Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6840-4069
Abstract
Gorączka filmowa. Kinomania w międzywojennej Polsce [Movie Fever: Cinephilia in Interwar Poland] (2019) by Paweł Sitkiewicz is the first Polish book-length study devoted to the film audience of the interwar period. A pioneering work in the field of audience studies, it also fills an important gap in research on cinema before 1939. The author discusses such issues as the social profile of the audience, the changes in morality accompanied by cinema, censorship, or film advertising. In his research, he uses a variety of sources: newspapers and press advertisements, memoirs, films, reviews, reportages, letters, articles and interviews. The result is the first comprehensive portrait of Polish pre-war audiences and their perception practices – sometimes extremely similar and sometimes diametrically different from ours.
Keywords:
audience, cinema in Poland 1918-1939, audience studies, interwar periodReferences
Hendrykowska, M. (1993). Śladami tamtych cieni. Film w kulturze polskiej przełomu stuleci 1895-1914. Poznań: Oficyna Wydawnicza Book Service.
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Sitkiewicz, P. (2019). Gorączka filmowa. Kinomania w międzywojennej Polsce. Gdańsk: słowo/obraz terytoria.
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Świdziński, W. (2015). Co było grane? Film zagraniczny w Polsce w latach 1918-1929 na przykładzie Warszawy. Warszawa: Instytut Sztuki PAN.
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Authors
Wojciech Świdzińskiwoyciesz@gmail.com
The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6840-4069
PhD in the humanities; theatre and film scholar. Lecturer at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, member of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies. He published the book Co było grane? Film zagraniczny w Polsce w latach 1918-1929 na przykładzie Warszawy [What Was on Screens? Foreign Movies in Poland 1918-1929 A Case Study of Warsaw] (2015). He is also the author of a scientific study of Andrzej Włast’s collection of movie columns. He published scientific and popular science articles in Kwartalnik Filmowy, Ekrany, Pleograf and Stolica.
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