Drogi rozwoju filmoznawstwa
The Paths of Film Studies Development

Summary/Abstract: The author makes a brief recapitulation of stages of development of film studies thought. She starts with the assumption that the object of study of film studies has a border character, and the discipline itself takes shape and is developed at a crossroads leading into multiple directions. In the entire history of reflection related to film, two competing trends vie for the dominant position. One of them sees film studies as an autonomic, highly specialised discipline, and the other a discipline that integrates the achievements of many other disciplines within a very wide scope. But both move towards the interdisciplinary approach. Partnership of film studies with other disciplines, the desire to keep up with their development, the tendency to constantly annex new, yet unexplored areas invigorated the discipline, and created tensions between various fields and marked the frontier areas, where new sciences develop most fruitfully. The author identifies and analyses four phases of development of film studies: pre-scientific, semiotic-structural, anthropological (also known as cultural) and the media phase.

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