Different Faces of Liberation in Polish Cinema: Between Politics, Religion, and Patriarchy

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel will present various faces of liberation that appear in Polish cinema. Political liberation, the traces of which can already be found in the Polish cinema of the 1980s. Liberation from censorship (though not only from censorship), which appears in Wojciech Marczewski's film, „Escape from “Liberty” Cinema”. Liberation from patriarchy, which can be traced in the popular cinema of the last few decades. Finally, a utopian escape into the land of religious freedom, which we can observe in the film "Siberian guide", dedicated to the Last Testament Church, also known as the 'Vissarionist' sect (1999-2004).

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Arkadiusz Lewicki, U of Wrocław (Poland)

Papers

• Traces of Freedom Ideas in Polish Film Comedies of the 1980s - Ilona Małgorzata Copik, U of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

• Different Meanings of 'Freedom' in 'Escape from the "Liberty" Cinema' - Marcin Adamczak, Polish National Film School / Adam Mickiewicz U (Poland)

• Liberation from Patriarchy?: Images of Gender Role Models in Polish Popular Cinema - Arkadiusz Lewicki, U of Wrocław (Poland)

• 'Russian Christ Will Bring a World without Wars': About the Illusion of Liberation and the Bankruptcy of the Pacifist Utopia of the Vissarionists - Jedrzej Morawiecki, U of Wrocław (Poland)

Discussant

• Dominic Leppla, Independent Scholar