Kino i pamięć
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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In this article I would like to show the involvement of cinema – as an element of mass culture – in
discussions concerning key historical (but not only) experiences or, in other words, in the process of
constructing and reconstructing social memory and collective identity. I interpret two movies which
were recognized as important: Falling down by Olivier Hirschbigel and Rose by Wojciech
Smarzowski in reference to the reasons behind their controversiality. I am interested in the way in
which they participate in the process of constructing and reconstructing collective memory and
identity as well as in the way in which discussions about them reveal the mechanisms of organizing
reality, exclusion and distribution of guilt. Both movies tell stories connected with European and
Polish historical experience but it is possible to consider these movies in relation to the concepts of
nation, guilt and responsibility, which are used to handle reality and to integrate the community.
Cinema turns out to be an important medium and an active participant in the process of constructing
social reality.
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Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, 34/2012, s.151-161