Polish Cinema: A Citizen and the Security Service
Krystyna Duniec
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Joanna Krakowska
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Abstract
Feature film as a historical source is frequently underestimated, while despite its artistic ambitions and openly subjective narration it should be recognized and analyzed as a valuable source of knowledge about the past. The article presents wide contexts and detailed insight into the ways how The Security Service of communist Poland and its relations with ordinary people have been represented and interpreted by the Polish cinema. Surprisingly enough we can learn a lot about methods, activities, surveillance, interrogations and tortures of the secret police during almost any period of Polish history from films made both before and after 1989. Polish films concerning the problem of the Security Service theory and practice could be analyzed according to three different orders: an order of representation, an order of dramatization and an order of updating, which refers directly to the problem of lustration and coming to terms with the past.
Keywords:
Security Service, Polish cinema, People's Republic of PolandReferences
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Authors
Krystyna Dunieckwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Profesor w Instytucie Sztuki PAN; zajmuje się antropologią i historią teatru. Autorka książek: Kaprysy Prospera. Szekspirowskie inscenizacje Leona Schillera (1998), Jan Kreczmar. Grał jakby uczył (2004), współautorka zbioru esejów Soc i sex. Diagnozy teatralne i nie- teatralne (2009), redaktorka tomu Aktor. Niepewna tożsamość (2011).
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Joanna KrakowskaInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuki PAN, zastępca redaktora naczelnego miesięcznika „Dialog”. Redaktorka książek Teatr drugiego obiegu (2000), Aktor teoretyczny (2002), Teatr. Rekonstrukcje (2004), współautorka zbioru esejów Soc i sex. Diagnozy teatralne i nieteat- ralne (2009), autorka monografii Mikołajska. Teatr i PRL (2011).
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