Juliusz Kleiner’s Theory of Humanistic Research as Applied to Film Studies
Juliusz Kleiner’s Theory of Humanistic Research as Applied to Film Studies

Summary/Abstract: The author recalls the 1929 essay “U wrót nowej estetyki” [“At the Gates of a New Aesthetics”] by Juliusz Kleiner (1886-1957), an eminent Polish humanist and philologist, and considers it as one of the most important publications within prewar Polish film thought. Lewicki primarily draws attention to the act of ennoblement of film in the scientific world, as well as Kleiner’s important observations on film as an art guided by new principles of creation and characterized by a new mode of reception. The main part of the article is an attempt to apply Kleiner’s other, strictly philological works and the methodology developed therein to film studies as an academic discipline, which was taking shape in the late 1950s and early 1960s (individual remarks concern, among other things, the issue of analysing a work, the theory of the historical process, as well as the principles of interdisciplinary comparative studies).

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