Surfiction of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson's 'The Adventure of a Good Citizen'

• Authors: Taszycka A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress re-examines one of the first experimental avant-garde films made in Poland in an inter-war period of 1918-1939. She identifies its auto-thematic elements and tries to find out what roles they play in a film work. To answer the question, she looks at the issue of avant-garde from a broader perspective and chooses literary avant-garde. She employs the category of surfiction, invented by Raymond Federman to describe changes in (not only) American literature, now called 'post-modern'. Examining the film from this perspective, she notes that the achievements of 20th century film avant-garde appear to corroborate Federman's later insights about rejection in a literary work of the category of the real at the expense of peculiarly constructed fiction.

Keywords

EN

THEMERSON FRANCISZKA; THEMERSON STEFAN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 57-58
• Pages: 14-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Taszycka A.

• A. Taszycka, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Sztuk Audiowizualnych, ul. Pilsudskiego 13, Krakow, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03126444