Mirror
Abstract
The article recalls two Polish theoreticians of cinema – Karol Irzykowski and Grzegorz Królikiewicz – and their main concepts: the mirror principle and the molecule, respectively. At the same time, it checks the functionality of these concepts and reinterprets them in the context of Sebastian Jagielski’s newly published book Przerwane emancypacje. Polityka ekscesu w kinie polskim lat 1968-1982 [Interrupted Emancipations: The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema, 1968-1982] (2021). This work proposes an interpretation of Polish cinema from the late 1960s to the early 1980s through the notion of excess, which the author defines as a formal or visual surplus that explodes and destabilizes the social norm. In this respect, the book also becomes a commentary on Polish culture of the period in question. By asking questions about (im)possible emancipation, broken modernization processes and mismatched subjects, Jagielski also asks about the relationship between cinema and life, and the way in which these two realities feed on each other. (Non-reviewed material).
Keywords:
Karol Irzykowski, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Sebastian Jagielski, film theory, history of Polish cinemaReferences
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Authors
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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