Piłat i inny mesjanizm negatywny
Piłate and Another Negative Messianism

Summary/Abstract: Marta Kufel’s article concerns Andrzej Wajda’s film Pilate and Others of 1972, which the author sees as an emblematic example of dramaturgy based on the principle of “revealing reflexive negativity.” Kufel juxtaposes the film with Wajda’s other productions from 1968-76, whose dramaturgy, she feels, has a particular excess and formlessness. In investigating reflexive negativity the author uses, among others, the methodology developed by Mieke Bal in researching the ties between visuality and narrative. The analysis includes, on the one hand, the historical side of the film – the references to the Holocaust and the fall of the Third Reich – and on the other, its anchoring in the Polish socio-cultural reality of the turn of the 1960s and 70s, with particular emphasis on the situation of the Polish Church.

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