Shrinking the war to a little red spot. Autobiographic dispute in "The Third Part of Night" by Andrzej Zulawski  Cover Image

"Skroplenie wojny do czerwonej kropki". Dyskurs autobiograficzny w "Trzeciej czesci nocy" Andrzeja Żuławskiego
Shrinking the war to a little red spot. Autobiographic dispute in "The Third Part of Night" by Andrzej Zulawski

Author(s): Monika Maszewska-Łupiniak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Żuławski Andrzej; autobiographism; Polish cinema

Summary/Abstract: The author is mainly interested in the chosen aspect of autobiographic dispute, namely a film autobiographism understood as a defined communication attitude of the film author and the audience reaction generated by it. In this paper Maszewska-Łupiniak discusses autobiographism included in the fictional film narration of "The Third Part of Night" by Andrzej Żuławski. His film, presenting a part of a family history, matches the autobiographic dispute. As a text about Holocaust it creates a universal message – the duality in the film structure makes us think about the relations between a creator and his work, between the ethical conditions of that relation. All that is reflected in the style and poetics of the film, which, in turn, makes the receiver of the story adopt a distant attitude.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 163-174
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish