Masterpieces of Polish Literature and Film. Pharaoh, The Wedding, Mother Joan of the Angels (EBOOK)

The book collection Masterpieces of Polish Literature and Film presents important works of Polish literature and their film adaptations, which are distinguished by a high artistic level and are among the classics of Polish cinematography. Each book in the collection consists of literary chapters contributed by Lidija Rezoničnik and chapters written by Seweryn Kuśmierczyk that contain analyses and interpretations of films based on literary works. The literary works are presented in a broader literary and cultural context. This context is also taken into account in the film analyses and interpretations, which are based on the method of anthropological-morphological analysis of the film work.

The first book is dedicated to the novel Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus (Faraon, 1895) and the film Pharaoh by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Faraon, 1965), the drama The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański (Wesele, 1901) and the film The Wedding by Andrzej Wajda (Wesele, 1972), and the novel Mother Joan of the Angels by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1946) and Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s film Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1960).

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode).

Keywords: Kawalerowicz, Wajda, Pharaoh, The Wedding, Mother Joan of the Angels, anthropological and morphological analysis, the canon of Polish literature, Polish film classics, film adaptations.

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Lidija Rezoničnik, Seweryn Kuśmierczyk
Introduction

Lidija Rezoničnik
“We Are the State”. Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus

Seweryn Kuśmierczyk
The Cinematic Image of Ancient Egypt. Pharaoh by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Lidija Rezoničnik
“Poland – That Is a Big Thing”. The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański

Seweryn Kuśmierczyk
A Film Mandala. The Wedding by Andrzej Wajda

Lidija Rezoničnik
A Metaphor for Evil. Mother Joan of the Angels by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Seweryn Kuśmierczyk
Lost Travellers. Mother Joan of the Angels by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Seweryn Kuśmierczyk
Anthropological-Morphological Analysis of a Film as Film Studies Practice

Filmography

Filmologist and culturologist SEWERYN KUŚMIERCZYK – is a professor at the University of Warsaw, where he is employed at the Department of Polish Culture of the Faculty of Polish Studies. He is the founder of a scientific school of film studies that focuses on the original method of anthropological-morphological analysis of the film work. His research areas include auteur cinematography, analysis and interpretation of the film work (with particular emphasis on the anthropological perspective), the history of Polish cinematography, and film photography. Seweryn Kuśmierczyk is the author of the monographs Lost on the Way. The Feature Film as an Image of the Inner Experience of a Character (1999), The Book of Films by Andrei Tarkovsky (2012), The Hero’s Journey in a Polish Feature Film (2014) and Tarkovsky. Encyclopaedia (2023). He is the scientific editor of the book series Monographs of Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, and the translator and author of accompanying studies in books by Andrei Tarkovsky: The Tolstoy Complex (1989) and Sculpting in Time (1991, 2007), as well as the first complete edition of Tarkovsky’s Diaries and Screenplays (1998).

LIDIJA REZONIČNIK – is an assistant professor of Polish literature at the Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her research areas include modernism in Polish literature, Polish-Slovenian literary contacts, imagology, and the interdisciplinary integration of literature and film in the context of film adaptations. She is the author of many articles on Polish literature and film adaptations published in Slovenian and foreign scientific journals (Primerjalna književnost, Jezik in slovstvo, Slavica Tergestina, Colloquia Humanistica, etc.) and has contributed chapters to and edited several monographs. Lidija Rezoničnik is a member of the research group for the study of film (Zespół Badań nad Filmem) at the Department of Polish Culture of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw.