On the Other Side of the Border: The Film Fate of the Upper Silesian Province
Mariusz Guzek
mariusz.guzek@gmail.comKazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-4499
Abstract
Writing about the specificity of regional film culture is sometimes more difficult than a monographic attempt to embrace national cinematography. In the case of a region with such a complex identity as Silesia in the first half of the last century, this task is a real methodological challenge. The author must perform time-consuming research and gather material enabling a reconstructive effort; he or she should also recognize the issues resulting from a specific type of tensions: national, political, geopolitical, and finally social and family tensions. Urszula Biel managed to do all this and much more in her book Kultura prowincji górnośląskiej. Kina, właściciele, widzowie [The Culture of the Upper Silesian Province: Cinemas, Owners, Viewers] (2020). This study complements a project from two decades ago, i.e. the publication of Śląskie kina między wojnami [Silesian Cinemas Between the Wars] (2002), creating an almost complete narrative, which has no precedent in the history of regional film studies in Poland.
Keywords:
German film culture, SilesiaReferences
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Authors
Mariusz Guzekmariusz.guzek@gmail.com
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-4499
Professor in the Institute of Cultural Science at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. He works on Area Studies (focusing on the film culture of Bydgoszcz), the history of Polish cinematography during the First World War and the years following the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty, as well as the cinema of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He is currently working on a research monograph on Czech myths in film.
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