The End of the Cinema or the End of Culture?
Abstract
The starting point for Giżycki’s reflections is Susan Sontag’s essay on the end of artistically valuable cinema and the end of cinephilie, the term used to denote something more than just an interest in the cinema, also participation in debating film societies, a lifestyle, fads and passions. Cinephilie was an elite phenomenon at a time when the cinema was not a commercially-oriented business. Giżycki likens Sontag’s statements to the situation of Poland’s contemporary cinema. The old artistic cinema has devalued, what once was elite today is a mass phenomenon but the spiritual dimension of the phenomena has been downgraded and reduced.
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Susan Sontag, cinephilie, the end of the cinemaReferences
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Marcin Giżyckikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Rhode Island School of Design United States
Krytyk i historyk sztuki, autor książek z dziedziny historii filmu i zjawisk współczesnej kultury artystycznej. Wykładowca w Rhode Island School of Design w USA. Opublikował: Postmodernizm - kultura wyczerpania (1988), Walka o film artystyczny w międzywojennej Polsce (1989), Awangarda wobec kina. Film w kręgu polskiej awangardy artystycznej dwudziestolecia międzywojennego ( 1996), Nie tylko Disney (2000), Koniec i co dalej? Szkice o postmodernizmie, sztuce współczesnej i końcu wieku (2001).
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