Browsing by Author "Szymala, Jacek"

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    • Filmowe portrety Stanisława Siedleckiego (1912-2002) na tle Svalbardu: Fragmenty wizualnej historii nauki 

      Szymala, Jacek; Rogatchevski, Andrei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)
      The article offers a new perspective on Stanisław Siedlecki’s biography through visual history, with a particular emphasis on film history. The connections between Siedlecki’s life and the cinema can be grouped in three sections: 1. films starring Siedlecki, 2. films by Siedlecki and 3. films about Siedlecki. The film <i>Do Ziemi Torella (To Torell Land)</i> represents the pre-war period; the post-war ...

    • 'Svalbard in Polish Documentaries (1930s-2020s): A Conceptualized Inventory' 

      Rogatchevski, Andrei; Szymala, Jacek (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      For the first time ever, over fifty Polish documentaries about Svalbard, filmed during the ninety years of Polish presence on the archipelago, have been looked at and categorized. Four distinct periods of such documentary-making have been identified and characterized: the heroic (in the 1930s), the exotic (in the 1950s-60s), the routine (in the 1970-90s) and the ethical (from the 1990s until present). ...

    • Svalbard w filmach polskich z lat 50. i 60. XX w. Perspektywa geografii wizualnej 

      Rogatchevski, Andrei; Szymala, Jacek (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-11)
      We propose to look at the 1950s–60s Polish documentaries about Svalbard through the prism of visual geography. We analyse the films by Włodzimierz Puchalski and Jarosław Brzozowski. Svalbard’s landscape appears as a character in these films. The films have not been considered from a geographical viewpoint before, and some of them have not yet been studied at all.