Dziwniejsze niż fikcja. Rola wyobraźni w filmach Marca Forstera
Stranger than fiction. The role of imagination in Marc Forster’s movies

Author(s): Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Marc Forster’s movies
Summary/Abstract: The book was devoted to the place Marc Forster’s output is given in the categoryof imagination. In the first part the author outlines the most important theoriesof imagination, starting from the ancient conceptions and phenomenology to contemporaryphilosophy and film thought. When discussing the opinions of suchresearchers as Gaston Bachelard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hanna Segal, Paul Ricoeur,Edgar Morin and Gilles Deleuze conclusion on a multidimensional understandingof this problem and its entanglement into contemporary redefinitions of suchcategories as memory can be drawn.The second part of the book constitutes a collection of analyses of Marc Forster’smovies (Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Monster’s Ball,Quantum of Solace). The author presents the levels on which the concept of imaginationunderstood as a psychological, aesthetic or philosophical , and, above all,anthropological category appears in director’s works in five subsequent scenes.In her interpretations, she makes use of different research tools, including, RenéGirard’s or Roland Barthes’ theories. She also refers to, among others, the problemsof movie authorships, postmodern movie, contemporary collections of phantasms,and the occurrence of mythic structures in pop culture at the turn of the 20th and21st centuries. Although the most popular Forster’s works constitute the core issue,the author also touches upon his less known projects, such as a debuting movieEverything Put Together or a commercial LX Forty.Conclusions from the analyses conducted, included in the book, correspondwith the latest theories of imagination. In the light of Forster’s works imaginationpresents itself as a category tightly connected with memory, identity or subjectivity

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