Bitter Cinema. On Occupation in 26 Pictures by Lordan Zafranović Cover Image

Gorzkie kino. O Okupacji w 26 obrazach Lordana Zafranovicia
Bitter Cinema. On Occupation in 26 Pictures by Lordan Zafranović

Author(s): Marek Hendrykowski
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, History of the Holocaust, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: historical film; totalitarianism; genocide; poetics of experience; aesthetics of shock; oblivion; memory;

Summary/Abstract: Hendrykowski Marek, Gorzkie kino. O Okupacji w 26 obrazach Lordana Zafranovicia (Bitter Cinema. On Occupation in 26 Pictures by Lordan Zafranović). “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 319–329. ISSN 2084-3011. Analysis and interpretation of the film fresque made by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović (1978), a masterpiece of European art cinema of 70s. Marek Hendrykowski’s study describes relationship between poetics of experience and aesthetics of shock. It also expresses the importance of mythical perspective (Babel Tower) and its meaning as the factor of common consciousness in keeping memory of the past in art and life of contemporary societies.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 319-329
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish