The Firemen’s Ball
Abstract
The history of the cinematographic invention is closely related to the history of the firefighting. The institution of the fire brigade provided a space for film screenings, but it was also a common subject of cinema. The interest of the fire brigade, on the one hand, resulted from their role in modern society; on the other hand, it related to the universal human myth about the conquest of the elements. The starting point for reflection on the imaginary focusing on fire as a film theme is the film Kinema (1999) by Stanisław Różewicz, which is a nostalgic trip to Radomsko, the city of the director's childhood and youth, and his first cinema experiences. (Non-reviewed material).
Keywords:
cinema in Poland, film culture, history of firefighting, Stanisław RóżewiczReferences
Hendrykowska, M. (1993). Śladami tamtych cieni. Film w kulturze polskiej przełomu stuleci 1895–1914. Poznań: Book Service.
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Iwona Kurzi.kurz@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7180-8670
Culture critic and historian, film expert. She deals with the history of modern Polish culture in the visual perspective, theory of visual culture, and the issues of body and gender. Recent books (co-edited and co-authored): Kultura wizualna w Polsce [Visual Culture in Poland] (2017), Ekspozycje nowoczesności. Wystawy a doświadczanie procesów modernizacyjnych w Polsce 1821-1929 [Expositions of Modernity: Exhibitions and Experiencing Modernization Processes in Poland 1821-1929] (2017) and Ślady Holokaustu w imaginarium kultury polskiej [Traces of the Holocaust in the Imaginarium of Polish Culture] (2017). She writes for Kino and Dwutygodnik.
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