‘Optimism against all odds’: Polish National Identity in War Films of Jerzy Passendorfer 2017 | Journal article | Sprawy Narodowosciowe
A Church-State conflict: Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s mother joan of the angels and cinematic projections of catholicism in Władysław Gomułka’s poland 2016 | Journal article | Iluminace © 2016, National Film Archive. All rights reserved. Referencing archival sources, movie reviews, secondary sources, and a number of films, this article explores the political controversy that accompanied the domestic release of Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s seminal work Mother Joan of the Angels, which occurred at the time of a major conflict between the Catholic Church and the party regime in Poland during the 1960s. It also discusses other films attacked by the Polish episcopate for their alleged anti-Catholicism and examines the relationship between the Polish School and Catholicism. I argue that the government officials responsible for the movie industry as well as most filmmakers steered away from aggressive anti-clericalism and atheist propaganda. By contrast, Polish bishops had no qualms about orchestrating attacks against movies they deemed as anti-Catholic and supported various forms of censorship. In my analysis, the case of Mother Joan of the Angels questions traditional narratives about the Church-State conflict in People’s Poland and the cultural policies of the communist regime.
Between the brown and the red: Nationalism, catholicism, and communism in twentieth-century poland-the politics of Bolesław Piasecki 2012 | Book Between the Brown and the lied probes the trajectories of the modern nationalist movement and political continuities in Poland and East Central Europe from the inter-war period to the end of the Cold War. Tracing the evolution of the Marxist party-state into a nationalist-populist regime, it also captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue. Ironically, under communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. This happened in spite of the fact that the government deployed nationalist themes in order to portray itself as more Polish than communist. Between the Brown and the Red also introduces to the reader one of the most fascinating figures in the history of twentieth-century Poland and the communist world. © 2012 by Ohio University Press. All rights reserved.
Heroism, Raison d'éat, and National Communism: Red nationalism in the cinema of people's Poland 2012 | Journal article | Contemporary European History 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. © 2012 Cambridge University Press.
The red and the brown: Boleslaw Piasecki, the Polish Communists, and the anti-zionist campaign in Poland, 1967-68 2005 | Journal article | EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES Poland, nationalism, anti-Semitism, communism, Boleslaw Piasecki
Unwanted Collaborators: Leon Koz ^ owski, W ^ adys ^ aw Studnicki, and the Problem of Collaboration among Polish Conservative Politicians in World War II 2001 | Journal article | European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
