The Lambeth Walk, or the spectator liberated from the pressure of the picture Cover Image

Lambeth Walk, czyli widz wyzwolony spod presji obrazu
The Lambeth Walk, or the spectator liberated from the pressure of the picture

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski
Subject(s): Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: lambeth walk; The Borough of Lambeth; popular culture; dance; parody; footage film; stunt scene; film poetics; editing; language of moving pictures;

Summary/Abstract: A quintessential work of British and European cinema of World War II “The Lambeth Walk” is the epitome of world-class art of moving picture editing. Marek Hendrykowskis close-reading analysis places this short movie in its aesthetic, cultural and generic contexts and in the international landscape of the anti-propaganda film.

  • Issue Year: 18/2016
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 97-110
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish