Looking Back. Modern Documentary In View of PRL Cover Image

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Looking Back. Modern Documentary In View of PRL

Author(s): Julia Banaszewska, Karol Jachymek
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; film; documentary; People Republic of Poland; nostalgia for socialism;

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on how PRL images function in Polish documentary cinematography made after 1989. The authors bethink the presence of memories of communist experiences in modern documentaries, differentiating two basic (and characteristic for this period of Polish cinema) tendencies of presenting the images of socialist past: PRL understood as a battlefield and PRL as an object of peculiar nostalgia (or play).

  • Issue Year: 35/2013
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 14-27
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish