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Educational Potential of Animated Films in Poland
Educational Potential of Animated Films in Poland

Author(s): Mateusz Żebrowski
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Gdański
Keywords: film literacy;film education

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes events which are focused on Polish animation, with special regards to their educational values. The thesis refers to the importance of the Polish Film Institute, higher education, film workshops and film festivals for Polish animations. The most important part of the paper describes animation film festivals. Film festivals are portrayed as the most extensive educational platform, because of which the whole paper centres on an understanding of the issue through festival studies. The author evokes theories of the field-configuring events by Bernard Leca, Charles-Clemens Rüling and Dominique Puthod. In the paper the Polish animation film scene is described as heterogeneous, however, filmmakers who make animations are evolving a coherent vision of it. Helpful in this process is the Polish Animation Producers Association. In the final part of the paper the author focuses on O!PLA. The Festival of Polish Animation. This event can be interpreted as a something more than a field-configuring event, and described as a communicator of the convergence of expertise (term of Grzegorz D. Stunża and associates).

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 18 (25)
  • Page Range: 106-119
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English