Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej
The image of Warsaw in ruins after World War II is an important motif in Polish documentary and feature cinema in the years 1944–1956. In the text, I discuss the images of the city captured by the first chroniclers as ‘basic’, which then became archetypical icons of the city’s destruction. I point...
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The image of Warsaw in ruins after World War II is an important motif in Polish documentary and feature cinema in the years 1944–1956. In the text, I discuss the images of the city captured by the first chroniclers as ‘basic’, which then became archetypical icons of the city’s destruction. I point out that the aesthetics of destruction, recorded in Andrzej Panufnik’s early film Ballada f-moll [Ballade in f minor], Jerzy Bossak’s Most [Bridge] and Tadeusz Makarczyński’s Suita warszawska [Warsaw Suite] proved to be exemplary for other artists. I show that the destruction of urban and architectural structures was inspiring for directors: it served as a documentary record, a basis for
constructing scripts, and dominant aesthetic, often providing a persuasive argument and serving to shape emotions. References to the resentments of the audience and the anatomy of the ruins were among the elements that shaped the ideological attitudes of various parts of Polish society. For some directors it was also a catharsis after the trauma of the Holocaust.
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| spelling | doaj-art-31f0eebc22da423cab3bc5fa7dcb4dd62025-08-20T02:28:28ZengAdam Mickiewicz University PressImages1731-450X2720-040X2020-12-01273610.14746/i.2020.36.11Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowejMarek Kosma Cieśliński0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5687-2559Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa we Wrocławiu The image of Warsaw in ruins after World War II is an important motif in Polish documentary and feature cinema in the years 1944–1956. In the text, I discuss the images of the city captured by the first chroniclers as ‘basic’, which then became archetypical icons of the city’s destruction. I point out that the aesthetics of destruction, recorded in Andrzej Panufnik’s early film Ballada f-moll [Ballade in f minor], Jerzy Bossak’s Most [Bridge] and Tadeusz Makarczyński’s Suita warszawska [Warsaw Suite] proved to be exemplary for other artists. I show that the destruction of urban and architectural structures was inspiring for directors: it served as a documentary record, a basis for constructing scripts, and dominant aesthetic, often providing a persuasive argument and serving to shape emotions. References to the resentments of the audience and the anatomy of the ruins were among the elements that shaped the ideological attitudes of various parts of Polish society. For some directors it was also a catharsis after the trauma of the Holocaust. https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27346Iconography of ruinsWorld War IIWarsawdestructioncreation |
| spellingShingle | Marek Kosma Cieśliński Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej Images Iconography of ruins World War II Warsaw destruction creation |
| title | Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej |
| title_full | Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej |
| title_fullStr | Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej |
| title_full_unstemmed | Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej |
| title_short | Destrukcja jako tworzywo. Ikonografia ruin Warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po II wojnie światowej |
| title_sort | destrukcja jako tworzywo ikonografia ruin warszawy w polskim kinie dokumentalnym po ii wojnie swiatowej |
| topic | Iconography of ruins World War II Warsaw destruction creation |
| url | https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27346 |
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