Pleasures of Explosions, Pleasures of Disruptions
Aleksander Kmak
aleksander.kmak@gmail.comUniversity of Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3724-5397
Abstract
The article is a review of Sebastian Jagielski’s book Przerwane emancypacje. Polityka ekscesu w polskim kinie 1968-1982 [Interrupted Emancipations: Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema 1968-1982] (2022). The book presents several films that were made between the Polish March 1968 political crisis and the introduction of the martial law in 1981, depicting them within a detailed institutional and socio-political landscape. The films share the trait of formal as well as thematic excess, which is regarded by the author, e.g. through his reference to queer theory, as a symptom of the ultimate futility of the countercultural progressive agenda, suppressed by the conservative revolution of the early 1980s. This symptom, however, enables the author to weave a minoritarian narrative about the Polish culture which stands in stark contrast to the dominant nationalist-catholic memory.
Keywords:
emancipation, affect, affect theory, Polish cinema, excessReferences
Borowska-Kazimiruk, S. (2022). Pisane ręką nie zwycięzców, a odmieńców. Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, 32. https://www.pismowidok.org/pl/archiwum/32-sciezki-reprodukcji/pisane-reka-nie-zwyciezcow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2022.32.2523
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Aleksander Kmakaleksander.kmak@gmail.com
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3724-5397
Film scholar and art critic. He is currently preparing a PhD dissertation about cinema of discomfort and sensuous film theory at the University of Warsaw. He has published in Widok, Kwartalnik Filmowy, Ekrany and Pleograf while continuously collaborating with the contemporary art magazine Szum. He co-edited the book Cięcie ciał. Ruchome obrazy [Cutting Bodies: Moving Images] (2018).
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