Filmow(aln)y obraz miasta w „Ślepnąc od świateł”. Dyskurs miejski w powieści Jakuba Żulczyka i serialu Krzysztofa Skoniecznego
The Filmable City in “Blinded by the Lights”: Urban Discourse in Jakub Żulczyk’s Novel and Krzysztof Skonieczny’s TV Series

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this article is the concept of filmability, examined through Jakub Żulczyk’s novel Blinded by the Lights (2021; Polish edition: 2014) and its 2018 adaptation directed by Krzysztof Skonieczny. The author focuses on the relationship between literary poetics and film poetics, while situating the formal analysis within a socio-cultural context. The study does not limit itself to characterising the relations between the novel and the TV series; rather, it takes the urban discourse as the point of reference for these relations. Conducting interdisciplinary research, the author draws on approaches such as Ewa Szczęsna’s comparative media studies and the narratology of Mieke Bal, who developed a method that integrates formal and cultural analyses. Studying Ślepnąc od świateł, the author demonstrates how the works of Żulczyk and Skonieczny convey – through their specific means of expression – a discourse on the contemporary city as a site of sensory overload, a space of illusion, and a locus of lost control.

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