The Hidden Lure of Cinema From the Times Rightly Bygone
Teresa Rutkowska
tz.rutkowska@gmail.comInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-9206
Abstract
A review of Justyna Jaworska’s book “Piękne widoki, panowie, stąd macie”. O kinie polskiego sockonsumpcjonizmu [“Beautiful Views, Gentlemen, You Have From Here”: About the Cinema of Polish Soc-consumptionism] (2019), which was awarded the Bolesław Michałek Award by the monthly Kino for the period 2018-2019. Jaworska analyzes films made in the early 1970s, in the era of Edward Gierek, which was regarded as a time of relative prosperity that awakened in Polish society the aspirations to improve the material situation. Jaworska looks for a reflection of these trends in films that were considered unsuccessful (and “weak” in Vattimo’s meaning of the word) at the time and found themselves outside the canon of works that were marked in the social consciousness. Her analyses made through the prism of current cultural diagnoses – as the reviewer points out – are brilliant, excellently written and penetrating, although sometimes controversial. The key theme of these films is the existential failure that most of the protagonists have experienced.
Keywords:
Polish cinema, seventies, socialist realism, soc-consumptionismReferences
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Teresa Rutkowskatz.rutkowska@gmail.com
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-9206
Former editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy, translator, now retired. She publishes book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.
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