The Stranger Inside Me, the Foreigner Among Us: Emigrant’s Experience in Jerzy Skolimowski British Films (“Moonlighting” and “Success Is the Best Revenge”)
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Examining Moonlighting and Success Is the Best Revenge, the two important films in the British period of the life of Jerzy Skolimowski, Klejsa employs two complementary interpretation perspectives. The first one focuses on the emigration character of the films while the other assumes that the director forms a kind of „autobiographical pact” with the viewer; in line with the rules of the pact the audience expects the director to „tell truth about himself’ and is inclined to see autobiographical elements even where actually there are not any, while the author consents to the ensuing consequences. In his interpretation, Klejsa argues that „outsiderism”, so typical of Skolimowski’s films, is understood as a feeling of the alienation of the world. In Moonlighting and Success Is the Best Revenge this feeling is expressed through the emigrant’s gaze - the emigrant who has not put down roots in a new land and is struggling with memories of the homeland she/he has left.
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Jerzy Skolimowski, autobiographical pact, emigrationReferences
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Konrad Klejsakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Adiunkt w Katedrze Kultury Audiowizualnej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Stypendysta Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej. Przygotowuje do druku książkę Filmowe oblicza kontestacji. Kino i kultura protestu lat 60. w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Europie Zachodniej.
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