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The Beacon of Child's Imagination

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the cyclical television programme The Constellation, which in the years of 1980-1982 was created and presented in the Polish National Television network by prof. Aleksander Jackiewicz (1915-1988), a film historian and critic, one of the doyens of film studies in Poland. Jackiewicz interpreted the phenomenon of stardom, personality of celebrities and their roles (the characters considered in his programmes included amongst others Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe). The scholar was not afraid of synthetic approach to the history and nature of film: he was an anthropologist of the cinema – what interested him on screen was the human being in the wider context of culture and time.

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