W jaki sposób filmowa forma uhistorycznia fi lmową narrację i ekranowy świat przedstawiony? Analiza zjawiska na wybranych przykładach
How Does the Film Form Historicize the Film Narrative and the World Depicted on the Screen? Analysis of the Phenomenon on Selected Examples
Author(s): Piotr WitekSubject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: historicity; historical film; paratexts; cinematic historical style; cinematic poetics of historicity; visual history;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of aesthetic-formal strategies of historicizing the fi lm narrative and the screen world presented in historical cinema. It shows by means of which strategies – formal means of expression – the fi lm narrative and the world depicted are historicized. In the introduction, a key analytical concept – historicity – is introduced. The category of historicity is shown as heterogeneous, requiring each time a conceptualization relativized to the cultural context of its use. In the article it is conceptualized in various ways, e.g. as: variability/existence in time (a way of understanding time); repetition; past; chronological; linearity; layering; rhythmic; causal; development; progress; shift/ turn to the past/references to the past; (futuristic) projection of the past; tradition; memory of the past; (historical) consciousness; scholarly (historiographical); momentousness; obsolescence/ anachronism/ archaicity/ antiquity; style of thought; narrative; discursive; documentary/source; meta-historical; genre. The strategies of historicizing the fi lm narrative and the cinematic world presented are conceived in the text as the numerous ways of equipping the fi lm with various kinds of formal/fi lmic signs of historicity, allowing to obtain in the act of actualization of the work by the viewer/researcher the impression of the eff ect of historicity of the narrative and the world presented. They form the fi lm poetics of historicity. In the following sections of the article, signs of historicity in the function of historicizing the cinematic narrative and the depicted world are analyzed on the example of various fi lms. They consist of (1) paratexts; (2) the composition of the fi lm narrative.
Journal: Res Historica
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 56
- Page Range: 1167-1202
- Page Count: 36
- Language: Polish
