In the Trap of Objects of Jan Švankmajer
Ewa Ciszewska
ewa.ciszewska@uni.lodz.plUniversity of Lodz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-5013
Abstract
Bogusław Zmudzinski’s book Twórczość filmowa Jana Švankmajera. Główne konteksty kulturowe i ideowe [Film Works of Jan Švankmajer: Main Cultural and Ideological Contexts] (2020) is an attempt to answer the question about the contexts essential in analyzing the short film work of the Prague Alchemist. The author argues Švankmajer’s works is a polemical continuator of the oeuvre of the mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldi. In his essays, Zmudzinski analyzes selected aspects of Švankmajer’s work by locating them in the context of Arcimboldi’s painting. Although the reviewer criticizes the disorderly line of argumentation, she acknowledges Zmudzinski’s research proposals as broadening the field of consideration of Polish and Czech film animation. Particularly noteworthy are the issues of festival reception of Švankmajer’s works and the postulate to take into account the local contexts of filmmaking in the process of the final interpretation of the work.
Keywords:
Jan Švankmajer, film animation, Czech film, PragueReferences
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Ewa Ciszewskaewa.ciszewska@uni.lodz.pl
University of Lodz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5670-5013
Assistant Professor at the Department of Film and Audiovisual Media at the University of Lodz. Her recent publications concern cultural heritage management in the field of animation in Poland, Polish-Czech film cooperation during the communist era, and film education in Poland. In 2020 she received an Honourable Mention in the SCMS Central/East/South Cinemas Outstanding Essay Award for the article Who Benefits from the Past? The Process of Cultural Heritage Management in the Field of Animation in Poland (The Case of the Se-Ma-For Film Studio in Lodz), published in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is currently working on a postdoctoral project concerning Polish and Czechoslovakian film collaboration in 1945-1990 and on the history of Se-Ma-For Film Studio in Lodz.
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