The author analyses the presence of androgyny and transsexuality mainly in fashion industry which fashion journalists and commentators like to see as a milestone in the fight for equality, stressing the ambivalence of marketing techniques and arguing that – similarly to Erving Goffman’s category of stigma – apart from having subversive potential it can also have an oppresive downside.
The author analyses Chris Marker’s movie Le mystère Koumiko (1967) in the context of ethnographic cinema, indicating its experimental and innovative potential which can be seen as an anticipation of the autoethnography category. The author argues that hiatus in content, as well as in form, understood as Marker’s deliberate strategy shows discrepancy between East and western orientalised projection of East.
The author analyses activities described as film therapy in Poland, emphasising the fact that in their description the term is often overused (most of them use film as a tool in school and social education or even rehabilitation, without any connection to therapy as a psychological and psychiatric method), which can cause some perplexity among those interested in the topic. The author also discusses the ideological implications of the method, inscribing it in the context of therapeutic culture and referring to Polish publications about film therapy, as they are potential signposts for those looking for information on the issue. This leads to the conclusion that film therapy can be seen as a part of film and media education in Poland, that favours the utilisable and reducing approach to cinema. Visible, especially on internet film forums, is an urgent need to educate the viewers, which reveals an even broader problem (that will be only briefly mentioned) – humanities education in general.
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