„Quo vadis” jako problem historiografii kultury wizualnej. Między ekranizacją, obiegiem przeźroczy i pocztówkami
“Quo Vadis” and the Historiography of Visual Culture: Between Film, Magic Lantern, and Postcards

Summary/Abstract: This article interprets Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis as a phenomenon of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual culture whose recognisability was shaped not only by literature and early cinema, but also by lantern slides, illustrated lectures, postcards, and other forms of printed imagery. It argues that, during this period, Quo Vadis circulated as a relatively stable package of scenes and visual motifs, open to serial reproduction, projection-based sequencing, and further transformation across media. The study adopts an approach informed by media archaeology, especially the work of Thomas Elsaesser, and supplements it with Martyn Jolly’s insights into the sequential logic of lantern slides. In dialogue with existing scholarship, the article revises and develops perspectives advanced by Maria Wyke, Monika Woźniak, and Ivo Blom, shifting attention away from the history of individual works and film adaptations toward the relations between lantern-slide series, postcard cycles, and the practices of circulation that connected them.

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