“Do you think the end is close?”. Late-modernism, the spirit of cinema and Andrzej Wajda’s “The Wedding” Cover Image

„Pan sądzi, że koniec bliski?”. Późny modernizm, duchy kina i Wesele Andrzeja Wajdy
“Do you think the end is close?”. Late-modernism, the spirit of cinema and Andrzej Wajda’s “The Wedding”

Author(s): Miłosz Stelmach
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: cinema; film; Andrzej Wajda;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to place Andrzej Wajda’s work from the early 1970s in the late-moderist trend developing in Polish film at that time. The best example of this is The Wedding (1972), which implements modernist strategies of subjectification, self-reflection and stylisation at the artistic and narrative level. The presence of ghosts in this film especially leads to a theoretical discussion on the spectral nature of the medium of film.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 139-150
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish