O modernizmie wyczerpanym
About Modernism of Exhaustion

Summary/Abstract: The text is a review of Miłosz Stelmach’s book Przeczucie końca. Modernizm, późność i polskie kino [Consciousness of the End: Modernism, Lateness and Polish Cinema] (2020). The review starts with the description of the structure of the book, where part one presents research about modernism in cinema, and part two offers a rich historical analysis of late modernism phase in Polish cinema of 1970s and 1980s. The review underlines the book’s focus not only on textual analysis, but also on institutional frameworks of late modern cinema. One of the most original sections of the book is the investigation of centre and periphery inequality in the global distribution of prestige and symbolic capital via festival networks. Stelmach also skilfully applies Deleuzian and Derridian (hauntology) concepts to the realm of Polish cinema. The book is a brilliant proposal to refresh the conceptual framework of discussion about Polish cinema of late 20th century.

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