[ecrea] TIMECODE- Subversive Polish Cinema

‘Subversion and Transgression in Polish Exilic Cinema: The Cases of
Borowczyk and Zulawski’

Michael Goddard
(University of Salford)

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 6pm, On Location, National Media Museum

Pre-1989 Polish cinema, when it is remembered at all, is usually still
seen in terms of a national cinema strongly engaged with historical
and social themes, and is associated with the key names of Andrzej
Wajda, Krzysztof Kièslowski and the 1970s 'Cinema of Moral Concern'.
This talk will, in contrast argue that the real 'dissidence' was
elsewhere, in the work of a range of exile Polish directors for whom
aesthetics were not subordinated to anything, and whose films are not
only more aesthetically radical than their 'national' contemporaries
but also may have more to say politically, even if they do so in
proximity to 'low' genres like pornography or horror. This talk will
focus on the films of Walerian Borowczyk and Andrzej Zulawski. In the
case of both these directors, it will be shown how their
uncompromising and subversive cinematic aesthetics and their
transgressions of the limits and norms of European art cinema have
resulted in their work being under-appreciated if not invisible.

Michael Goddard is a lecturer in media studies at the University of
Salford. His current research centres on Polish and European cinema
and visual culture and he is reviews editor of Studies in Eastern
European Cinema (SEEC).


TIMECODE
a seminar series in media

Run by the Communication Culture and Media research group in the
Bradford Media School, School of Computing Informatics and Media
(SCIM), this regular seminar series explores the increasingly
important relationship between media, technology, culture and society.
 SCIM has a long tradition of operating across artistic and
scientific academic disciplines and is expanding its creative
portfolio. Hosted by the National Media Museum, and supported by their
superb facilities, the series recognises the importance of the
National Media Museum as a forum for these critical debates.

All seminars are FREE and begin at 6pm, On Location, National Media
Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ. Tel: 0870 70 10 200
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/

For more information on the series contact: Mark Goodall
((m.goodall /at/ bradford.ac.uk)) Tel +44 (0)1274 236071

http://bms.brad.ac.uk/research/timecode.php




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