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- Title
Heroism, Raison d'état, and National Communism: Red Nationalism in the Cinema of People's Poland.
- Authors
KUNICKI, MIKOŁAJ
- Abstract
Using archival sources, film reviews, interviews, secondary sources and movies, this article examines a Polish nationalist-communist school of directors who supported the Communist Party regime in constructing a new ethos, which consisted of ethnocentric nationalism and authoritarian nation state ideology. It demonstrates how the party state tried to legitimise itself by endorsing popular culture, specifically mainstream cinema. It also argues that National Communism inevitably led to the nationalist-authoritarian fusion, which set up the conditions for a pluralist and polyphonic realm, outside, but also within the ruling camp.
- Subjects
POLAND; COMMUNISM; COMMUNISM &; motion pictures; NATIONALISM &; communism; NATIONALISM in motion pictures; HISTORICAL films; GOMULKA, Wladyslaw, 1905-1982; PASSENDORFER, Jerzy; COLOURS of Struggle (Film); HISTORY
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777312000136