Uniwersalizm i etnocentryzm w polskim kinie
Universalism and Ethnocentrism in Polish Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Rejecting the theory of “ingredients”, the author presents an interactive theory of the universality of film work. This theory exposes the difference in cultural potentials between that which is universal and that which is local. It highlights the importance of locality (uniqueness of the individual and collective experience) in the process of film reception. Due to differences in cultural potential, both its cultural aspects – “local” and “universal” – jointly establish in the process of film reception the type of the asymmetry of meanings: constantly interfering and oscillating between them. The strategy of winning this struggle, raised to an art form in film, allows filmmakers to organize and draw from elements of “local” cinema its universal meaning.

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