„Sąsiedzi” [„The Neighbours”] and Bydgoszcz in Film
Andrzej Gwóźdź
gwan1@poczta.onet.plUniversity of Silesia (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-5942
Abstract
Although researching film history through the history of one film is not a new concept, it is rather rarely used. Piotr Zwierzchowski and Mariusz Guzek’s monograph “Sąsiedzi”. Film o bydgoskim wrześniu 1939 [“The Neighbours”. A Film about September 1939 in Bydgoszcz] (2019) is devoted to the eponymous 1969 film by Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski and, simultaneously, to the city of Bydgoszcz in film. Both narratives are situated in the space of tension between national cinema and the history of cinema in the city which itself was often a place of film locations. The monograph follows the convention of an investigation conducted by the insightful and inquisitive film scholars and historians intrigued by their city’s past, who are equipped with an arsenal of tools and research measures providing an effective cognitive result. Zwierzchowski and Guzek do not intend to revise history, nor do they write the history of cinema anew. The undoubted beauty of the book is its cognitively fruitful and at the same time attractive style, in which the perspective of a witness to history (including the history of cinema) is fortuitously complemented by the perspective of a film consumer of from the past decades. In Piotr Zwierzchowski and Mariusz Guzek’s approach, the perplexities of Ścibor-Rylski’s ‘Bydgoszcz film’ turned out to be a fascinating adventure of cinema in the city which was made a film-city by historical circumstances.
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the Bydgoszcz film, Bydgoszcz, film historyReferences
Zwierzchowski, P., Guzek, M. (2019). „Sąsiedzi”. Film o bydgoskim wrześniu 1939. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego.
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Andrzej Gwóźdźgwan1@poczta.onet.pl
University of Silesia Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-5942
Full Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Silesia (Katowice). For many years he was also a researcher and lecturer at the University of Lodz, as well as a visiting professor at universities in Konstanz and Shanghai, and a lecturer at universities in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany and Latvia. He is particularly interested in the theory of film and new media, and the anthropology of imagery. His recent publications include two monographs on German cinema: Zaklinanie rzeczywistości. Filmy niemieckie i ich historie 1933-1949 [Enchanting the Reality: German Films and Their Histories 1933-1949] (2018) and Kino na biegunach. Filmy niemieckie i ich historie 1949-1991 [Rocking Between the Poles: German Films and Their Histories 1949-1991] (2019). Moreover, he is the author of Powtórka z Kutza [Revising the Works of Kazimierz Kutz] (2019), as well as the originator and editor of several dozens of anthologies and collective volumes devoted to media theory, history of film reflection, history of Upper Silesian cinema and various filmmakers. His recent publications include: W poszukiwaniu polskiej Nowej Fali [In Search for the Polish New Wave] (in collaboration with M. Wach, 2017), Widzialność wyzwolona [Liberated Visibility] (in collaboration with N. Gruenpeter, 2018), Z góry widać lepiej. Niedokończone rozmowy z Kazimierzem Kutzem. Rozmawiał Andrzej Gwóźdź [You Get a Better View from Above. Unfinished Conversations with Kazimierz Kutz Interviewed by Andrzej Gwóźdź] (2019). In 2005-2009 he was the president of the Polish Association of Cultural Studies; in 2006-2014 he was the editor-in-chief of the quarterly Kultura Współczesna. He is the founder, and, since 2015, the vice-president of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies.
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