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Architectural space of Jan Rybkowski’s Warszawska premiera and Aleksander Ford’s Młodość Chopina. The film vision of 19th-century cities in the times of socialist realism

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Kurpiewski P.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2017

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vol. 22

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issue 31

5-12

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Two Polish historical films set in 19th-century cities were created. The paper analyzes film images of Warsaw, Paris and Vienna. For the needs of Warszawska premiera [Warsaw Première] and especially Młodość Chopina [Youth of Chopin] impressive sets of 19th-century cities were built in an atelier in Łódź. The author presents the main architectural principles behind these visions and points to the problems faced by the artists who wanted to create a credible and convincing illusion of the past. The films of socialist realism are today a peculiar souvenir of the Stalinist culture with its brazen propaganda message. It is, however, worth noting that the staging and decorations in the films depicting the past were created with great historical accuracy and some of the solutions applied during the production of Warsaw Première and Youth of Chopin were a great hint for later films of a similar character.

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Jak być kochaną. Kulturowe zapośredniczenie traumywojennej w filmach z lat 60

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Łysak T.

Kwartalnik Filmowy

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2019

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issue 105-106 Kino wobec transformacji ustrojowych

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Teoria traumy pojawiła się w latach 90. jako wyraz rozczarowania tekstową orientacją dekonstrukcji i poststrukturalizmu. Jej celem było zwrócenie teorii ku światu. Jednakże w latach 60. polscy filmowcy z zapałem przedstawiali traumy wojenne, jak też ich echa. Przyłożenie narzędzi teoretycznych teorii traumy do trzech filmów: „Dziś w nocy umrze miasto” Jana Rybkowskiego (1961), „Jak być kochaną” Wojciecha Jerzego Hasa (1962) oraz „Pasażerki” Andrzeja Munka i Witolda Lesiewicza (1963) ma trzy cele: ocenę poziomu rozumienia efektów wojennych stresorów traumatycznych w latach 60., odróżnienie uznawanych form przeżycia/śmierci od psychologicznego zranienia, które nie jest godne upamiętniania, a także potraktowanie kulturowych przedstawień traumy jako symptomów szerszych procesów kulturowych i społecznych.

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The theory of trauma appeared in the 1990s as an expression of disappointment with the textual orientation of deconstruction and post-structuralism. Its aim was to turn the theory towards the world. However, in the 1960s, Polish filmmakers were enthusiastic about war traumas as well as their echoes. Applying theoretical tools of trauma theory to three films: „Tonight, the City Will Die” by Jan Rybkowski (1961), „How to Be Loved” by Wojciech Jerzy Has (1962) and the „Passenger” by Andrzej Munk and Witold Lesiewicz (1963) will have three goals: an assessment of the level of understanding of the effects of war traumatic stressors in the 1960s, the distinction of recognized forms of survival/death from psychological wounds, which is not worth commemorating, and also treating cultural representations of trauma as symptoms of wider cultural and social processes.

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Aesthetics of 1950s and 1960s interiors presented in Polish comedy films from that period

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Wojciechowska-Kucięba J.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2017

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vol. 22

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issue 31

81-90

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This article is an attempt at outlining key aesthetic standards of interior design of the 1950s and 1960s on the basis of examples exhibited in the Polish and foreign romantic comedies of that time. Some distinguishing features of 1960s Polish aesthetics were the characteristic abstract language, organic form, asymmetry, diagonal lines, arrangements based on “A” and “X” letter outlines and lively colours. Furniture design used new materials mostly plywood and plastics such as polyvinyl chloride and epoxy resins. The 1960s, called “small stabilization” by design historians, were slightly different. Shops offered a variety of new products designed by Polish creators – such as furniture, home appliances, tools and machines. New Polish industrial design of 1960s is represented by the RAMONA and EWA radios and the BAMBINO record player, whereas sectional furniture – especially SYSTEM MK designed by Bogusława and Czesław Kowalski, better known as “the Kowalskis’ furniture” – became the icon of the decade. Polish and foreign romantic comedies from 1950s and 1960s are an excellent iconographic source of information on how interior design changed in the second half of the 20th century, and specifically on how living space was organized and adapted for private and public purposes. In Poland, attempts were made to use all the “design innovations” coming from the west, however, the immutably closed Polish borders prevented them from spreading freely. We had to use local designers. In the 2nd half of the twentieth century, a period which Prof Irena Huml called “the invasion of modernity” started. The doctrine of socialist realism was rejected and the focus was on modernity. Innovation became the most desirable feature of a work of art, and modernity the most important concept.

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2 Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

1 Kwartalnik Filmowy

1 Kurpiewski P.

1 Wojciechowska-Kucięba J.

1 Łysak T.

1 2019

2 2017

Architectural space of Jan Rybkowski’s Warszawska premiera and Aleksander Ford’s Młodość Chopina. The film vision of 19th-century cities in the times of socialist realism

Jak być kochaną. Kulturowe zapośredniczenie traumywojennej w filmach z lat 60

Aesthetics of 1950s and 1960s interiors presented in Polish comedy films from that period