The Dream of Warsaw: The Mythologization of the Capital in Warsaw Comedies
Abstract
Edgar Morin believes that pieces of information that would not be saturated with myth-making substance are a rarity in mass culture. Talarczyk says the Warsaw comedy of the People’s Poland actively participated in the making of the myth of Warsaw. Those comedies, which put the vision of the tortured city in ironic inverted commas, are the most interesting and most symbolic ones. At the same time, references to the tradition of the humour of the German occupation and a presentation of its updated variety have tinged the irony with an intimate and emotional attitude to the city. You can say a Warsaw comedy played the role of a quasi-ritual which tried to renew ties with the city (almost totally destroyed during WW2) and include it in the spatial aspect of the social identity of both its residents and viewers from the rest of the country.
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Warsaw, comedy, Edgar MorinReferences
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Monika Talarczyk-Gubałakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland
Doktorantka w Zakładzie Filmu i Telewizji UAM w Poznaniu.
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