No longer a trivial entertainment: Popular cinema in Poland after 2000

• Authors: Ewa Mazierska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses two types of popular films produced in Poland after 2000, a subgenre of romantic comedy, which I label “sexual comedy”, represented by the films of Andrzej Saramonowicz and Tomasz Konecki, and “popular arthouse film”, represented by Dzień świra (Day of the Wacko, 2002) by Marek Koterski. To understand the specificity of Polish popular cinema in this period, the author locates it in the postwar history of filmmaking in this country, arguing that making popular films was met in this country with great resistance. The situation has changed after the fall of state socialism, when cinema had to be more receptive to the audience’s demands. The films discussed in this article reflect both this pressure and the difficulties involved in making such films.

Keywords

EN

Polish cinema; Polish popular cinema; Polish contemporary cinema

PL

polskie kino; polskie kino popularne; polskie kino współczesne

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Literatura i Kultura Popularna
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 24
• Pages: 129 - 142

Contributors

author

Ewa Mazierska

• University of Central Lancashire, Preston