Polskość na zagranicznych ekranach. Polscy aktorzy a budowanie (ponad)narodowych tożsamości w kinie europejskim

Kris Van Heuckelom

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2024.34.02

Published: 2024-12-20

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2024)

Polishness on Foreign Screens: Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema

Kris Van Heuckelom

Section: Treatises

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2024.34.02

Abstract

This text focuses on the contribution of Polish (and non-Polish) actors to building an image of expatriate Polishness in foreign (European) feature films. The two main questions that underlie the conducted research are: which actors were cast as Polish emigrants in European cinematography and how does the Polishness of these actors portrayed on screen intertwine with other identity markers (such as class, gender, ethnicity, generational affiliation, religion)? The main focus is on productions from the 1990s up to the 2010s when the theme of Polish migration was gaining increasing importance in European cinema. As indicated by the careers of prominent actresses such as Alicja Bachleda-Curuś and Agata Buzek, this growing corpus of films redefines expatriate Polishness along two thematic lines: interethnic romance (as a form of Europeanisation) and intergenerational conflict (as a form of anti-patriarchal resistance). While the second theme serves to reconfigure Polishness from a position of confrontation (against paternal and patriarchal authority), the first theme does the same from a clearly positive and constructive point of view (as it embodies a return to the “European family” through a form of transnational reconciliation).

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production research , imagology , Polish actors , European cinema

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Van Heuckelom, K. (2024). Polishness on Foreign Screens: Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 34(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2024.34.02

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Kris Van Heuckelom

kris.vanheuckelom@kuleuven.be
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1188-916X

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Catholic University of Leuven Belgium

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KRIS VAN HEUCKELOM – PhD, professor at the Faculty of Arts, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Lecturer in cultural studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). Scientific interests: contemporary Polish literature and culture, transnational film studies, comparative studies and translation studies. The most important book publications: „Patrzeć w promień od ziemi odbity”. Wizualność w poezji Czesława Miłosza [“Looking into the Ray Reflected from the Ground.” Visuality in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz] (Warsaw 2004), Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017 (Cham 2019), Nostalgia, solidarność, (im)potencja: obrazy polskiej migracji w kinie europejskim (od niepodległości do wpólczesności) [Nostalgia, Solidarity, (Im)Potence: Images of Polish Migration in European Cinema (from Independence to the Present)] (Cracow 2022).

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2024-09-19

ISSN: 1898-1593

eISSN: 2353-9844

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