In and outside the metropolis – cinemas in Lower Silesia before the year 1945 Cover Image

W metropolii i poza nią – kina na Dolnym Śląsku przed rokiem 1945
In and outside the metropolis – cinemas in Lower Silesia before the year 1945

Author(s): Andrzej Dębski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Visual Arts, Regional Geography, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: Lower Silesia;Breslau;Wroclaw; Regional Cinema History; Early cinema; Weimar Cinema; Cinema in the Third Reich; Metropolis and Periphery; Historical database of Cinemas in Lower Silesia;

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses issues of regional cinema history in the case of Lower Silesia before the year 1945 and enlivens the discourse on the relationship between metropolis (Wrocław) and periphery. The development and growing significance of cinemas in local communities is shown on the examples of Strzelin – then a city of several thousand residents – and Kloster Street in Wrocław. Discourse of metropolis and periphery is expanded by the examples from Świdnica (“the first stationary cinema in Silesia”), Polanica Zdrój (“the biggest cinema in Kłodzko County”) and Bolesławiec (“the first city in Lower Silesia in which sound films where projected”). The article is concluded with a description of Historical Database of Cinemas in Lower Silesia, which – being a tool for data capturing and analysis – constitutes a substantial support for traditional methods of research in humanities.

  • Issue Year: 46/2015
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 68-79
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish