Evolution of a hero in Polish postwar cinema – from Superman to the Wonder Woman Cover Image

Przemiany bohatera w powojennym kinie polskim – od Supermana do Wonder Woman
Evolution of a hero in Polish postwar cinema – from Superman to the Wonder Woman

Author(s): Agnieszka Tambor
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Culture and social structure , Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: contemporary Polish cinema; woman; man; movie hero; „Ashes and Diamonds”; „More Than Life at Stake”; „Pitbull”; „Polish-Russian War”; „Suicide Room”; „Secret Wars”; „Blood of my flesh”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the evolution of the heroes in Polish cinema after the Second World War, as well as while showing the characters that influenced the social awareness of Poles, it reveals those which have been created in response to the social needs. Although the Polish postwar cinema for decades used to be exclusively masculine, lately this tendency changed, and thus for, the author shows that the features and attributes of male characters have been transferred to the female characters by the scenarists and film directors.

  • Issue Year: 20/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 193-205
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish