Domowizna jako przestrzeń i pamięć Górnego Śląska. Obrazy regionu w śląskich filmach o dziedzictwie
"Domowizna" as a Space and Memory of Upper Silesia. Images of cultural sphere in Silesian Heritage Films

Summary/Abstract: This article, drawing on selected examples from the filmmaking of Kazimierz Kutz, Janusz Kidawa, Jan Kidawa-Błoński, Lech Majewski, and Józef Kłyk, presents a project of Silesian memory of the community's history, captured through visual storytelling. Analyzing Silesian identity, the author uses the category of "Domowizna," understood as an extended home, constituting a source material and mental universe through which knowledge about reality is disseminated from the perspective of a community, e.g. the Silesian one, and its participants, e.g. the Silesians. The author demonstrates that each of these filmmakers drew on oral traditions (Silesian "godka") and verbal motor skills to define a universe that unifies the Silesian community.

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