Zdalne kino. Samotność widza wobec zmysłowego charakteru recepcji filmu
Remote Cinema. The Loneliness of the Spectator in Relation to the Sensuous Nature of Film Reception

Summary/Abstract: The author draws the reader’s attention to a new phenomenon that emerged during the coronavirus epidemic: “remote cinema”. The author contemplates how this new situation differs from the ordinary experience of watching a film online. These deliberations are set in the context of selected aspects of film theory, regarding the spectator’s distance towards the film and, above all, towards other spectators in the cinema. The author refers to sensuous theory, which has recently become dominant, but also to earlier theoretical concepts (such as psychoanalytic theory); she emphases the fact that present-day film reflection is largely rooted in them. As for the cinema experience, the focus is the paradoxical loneliness of the spectator. The author also refers to some film examples, in particular "Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema" (1990) by Wojciech Marczewski.

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