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“Ethos” 23:2010 No. 1(89)
THE CINEMA AND TRANSCENDENCE
From the Editors – The Thought and the Playground (M. Ch., P. M) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
J o h n P a u l II – “To open up the glorious regions of light” (Address to the people of
the communications industry, Los Angeles, USA, 15 September 1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Maria M. D y l e w s k a – St. John Damascene’s Theology of the Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
FILM AS A REALITY
Stanley C a v e l l – The World Viewed, or What Is Film? (trans. D. Chabrajska) . . . . . . . . 29
Karen H a n s o n – Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film
(trans. D. Chabrajska) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
THE IMAGE FACING THE TRANSCENDENT
Krzysztof K o r n a c k i – Images of God and the World Beyond, as seen
in Contemporary Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Mariola M a r c z a k – The Image that Refers to the Invisible: On Metaphysical
Cinema at the Turn of the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Piotr K l e t o w s k i – To Get a Glimpse of What Is Covered Up: The Cinema of the Far
East as a Special Intellectual and Aesthetic Phenomenon in World Cinematography . . . 108
DEATH AND CONVERSION
Waldemar F r ą c – Death Devoid of Essence: The Conclusion to the Iwaszkiewicz-Wajda Triptych . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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Fr. Andrzej L u t e r – The Pursuit of Transcendence, as manifested by the Polish
Cinema of the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS
Maciej N o w a k – Filming Jazz: Between the Document and the Masterpiece . . . . . . . . . 151
Maria K u r p i k – Polish Film Poster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
FACING THE PAST
Joanna W o j n i c k a – On the Ruins of Illusion: An Essay on the Russian Cinema
of the Last Two Decades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Mateusz W e r n e r – The Past Projected on the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
THE STATUS QUO
Marcin A d a m c z a k – 21st Century Hollywood Cinema, as seen in the Light
of Contemporary Film Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Jerzy P ł a ż e w s k i – To Recover the Best Repertory for Polish Cinemas . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
INTERVIEWS OF THE “ETHOS”
“Ill with Poland.” Fr. Andrzej L u t e r Talks to Andrzej W a j d a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
THINKING ABOUT THE FATHERLAND...
Piotr W o j c i e c h o w s k i – The Lost Borderlands – the Saved Borderlands . . . . . . . . . 247
NOTES AND REVIEWS
Tadeusz M i c z k a – The «Struggle» of Polish Film Scholars with the Human Body
(review of Ciało i seksualność w kinie polskim, ed. S Jagielski and
A. Morstin−Popławska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2009) . 253
Agnieszka Ż u k – Visconti and Others: Portraits of the Makers of the European Cinema (review
of Autorzy kina europejskiego, ed. A. Helman and A. Pitrus, Rabid, Kraków 2009) . . . . . 260
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Dorota C h a b r a j s k a – Craftsmanship or Art? (review of B. Wildstein’s Śmieszna
dwuznaczność świata, który oszalał, Fronda, 2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Małgorzata K i t o w s k a−Ł y s i a k – Against the Flow (review of W. Skrodzki’s
Wizjonerzy i mistrzowie, Towarzystwo “Więź”, Warszawa 2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Edward F e r e n c – To Open Oneself Up to the Mystical Aura (review of L. Mądzik’s
Theatre, Stage Design, Workshops, Photography, Poster, Jedność, Kielce 2008) . . . .
P r o p o s a l s o f t h e E t h o s (P. Skrzypczak, Aktor i jego postać ekranowa,
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika; M. Szydłowska,
Między Broadwayem a Hollywood. Szkice o artystach z Polski w Stanach
Zjednoczonych, Rabid; Fr. J. Sochoń, Intencje codzienne, Podkarpacki Instytut
Książki i Marketingu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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REPORTS
Stephan K a m p o w s k i – Towards Christ: Redemptor hominis, Thirty Years Later.
The Relevance of a Way to the Human Being (report on an international congress
held on the 30th anniversary of the Encyclical Letter Redemptor hominis, Rome,
16−17 Oct. 2009; trans. D. Chabrajska) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Agnieszka L e k k a–K o w a l i k – Emotions and Metaphysics (report on the 12th
International Symposium on Modern Metaphysics in the series “Tasks of Metaphysics,”
KUL, Lublin, 10 Dec. 2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Karolina Z y c h o w i c z – The Sphere as a Mysterious Symbol of Human Existence:
On Jiménez Deredia’s Exhibition “Deridia: The Genesis and the Symbol”
(Rome, 23 June–30 Nov. 2009) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
THE PONTIFICATE IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD
Marek K o t y ń s k i, CSSR – The Image of John Paul II, as seen in Feature Films . . . . . . 301
Fr. Jerzy S z y m i k – Poems for the Pope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ETHOS
Cezary R i t t e r – How Are Things in Poland? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
John Paul II and Benedict XVI on the Significance of Audiovisual Arts (by Maria O ż ó g,
Cezary R i t t e r) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Notes about the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338