Witalność kina przebiega przez jego złe, a nie dobre gusty. "Diabeł" Andrzeja Żuławskiego
The Vitality of Cinema Runs Through Its Bad, Not a Good Tastes - Andrzej Żuławski's "The Devil"

Summary/Abstract: The author through the analysis of Andrzej Żuławski’s "The Devil" identifies elements of style present in Żuławski’s work, which oscillates around the category of kitsch. Olszewska-Jończyk points to the sources of discomfort for viewers dealing with apparent tastelessness. The deliberate departure from “good taste” in the film that caused a conflict between the director and the government of the time can be seen as a radical experiment and exercise in breaking away form the artistic and scientific conventions. The use of means that are identified with kitsch as a way of reaching marginalised regions of culture is also a way in which and through which the categories of national and existential myths and kitsch can be deconstructed, showing their superficial nature.

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