Obnażyć rzeczywistość. Nagość i erotyka w kinie polskim czasów przełomu
Reality Laid Bare. Nudity and Eroticism in the Polish Cinema of the Time of the Transformation

Summary/Abstract: The main subject of the article is an attempt to look at the Polish cinema of the time of the transformation in the context of numerous references to erotic themes and nudity on screen. The second half of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s is in Poland a period of growing pornographic trend of native popular culture. On the one hand, this phenomenon may testify to the ongoing political transformation in our country and the dynamically changing social, moral or political situation. On the other hand, it can be easily associated with the influences of Western pop-culture texts (e.g. video cassettes or magazines containing pornographic content), which more and more boldly began to penetrate Poland at that time. As a result, the so-called second wave of porn-chic clearly influenced the shape of the native cinema, becoming one of the most important catalysts of the revolution of the imagination that started in Poland at that time. In this article, selected phenomena have been analyzed, which could certainly indicate a significant, though not entirely homogeneous role, which nudity and eroticism played in Polish cinema and culture of that period. The most important social, political and cultural mechanisms that determined the shape of the films being made at the time, are also briefly considered.

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