W kręgu dziesiątej muzy. Refleksje Karola Irzykowskiego i teksty krytyczne Andrzeja Własta o sztuce filmowej
In the Circle of the Tenth Muse. Karol Irzykowski’s Reflections and Andrzej Włast’s Critical Texts on Film Art

Author(s): Małgorzata Radkiewicz
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish cinema; film theory; silent film; Karol Irzykowski; film criticism
Summary/Abstract: The chapter examines texts of a film critic Andrzej Włast published in the “Ekran i Scena” magazine and a book by Karol Irzykowski, whose "The Tenth Muse: Aesthetic Aspects of Cinema" (1924) is the first theoretical study exploring the cinema as art in the Polish language. Both Włast and Irzykowski addressed issues of film movement and montage, film genres, stardom, and others, analyzing contemporary film production in Europe and the USA. It is interesting to follow parallels and differences in points of view of the two critics and writers to show the early stage of film theory in Poland and the ways of discussing the language of cinema, its status as an art form and as part of popular culture.

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