Nowi Londyńczycy. Polscy emigranci na dużym (i małym) ekranie
The article focuses on growing presence of Polish labour immigrants in contemporary European cinema and TV fiction. Striking differences are observed between pre1989 and post1989 productions on the subject of labour migration. Whereas older films tend to depict Polish jobseekers as unfortunate tr...
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University of Silesia Press
2020-12-01
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| description | The article focuses on growing presence of Polish labour immigrants in contemporary European cinema and TV fiction. Striking differences are observed between pre1989 and post1989 productions on the subject of labour migration. Whereas older films tend to depict Polish jobseekers as unfortunate troublemakers, films set in the postcommunist period seem to convey increased social interaction between newcomers and local people which need not be hostile. This is usually represented by a motif of an interethnic love story. As such, recent European productions depart from the traditional portrayal of immigrants in postwar Polish film “as an anomaly from the norm and a problem for which somebody is to blame,” as Ewa Mazierska puts it (2009; 123). Similarly, post1989 representations of Polish labour migrants in European cinema differ significantly from the image created in recent Polish drama series Londyńczycy (Londoners, 2008–2009) where stress is laid on the strong cohesive spirit within the Polish migrant community rather than the motif of a (happy) interethnic romance. |
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Polscy emigranci na dużym (i małym) ekranieKris Van Heuckelom0prof. dr, Instytut Slawistyki, Uniwersytet Katolicki w Leuven, Belgia.The article focuses on growing presence of Polish labour immigrants in contemporary European cinema and TV fiction. Striking differences are observed between pre1989 and post1989 productions on the subject of labour migration. Whereas older films tend to depict Polish jobseekers as unfortunate troublemakers, films set in the postcommunist period seem to convey increased social interaction between newcomers and local people which need not be hostile. This is usually represented by a motif of an interethnic love story. As such, recent European productions depart from the traditional portrayal of immigrants in postwar Polish film “as an anomaly from the norm and a problem for which somebody is to blame,” as Ewa Mazierska puts it (2009; 123). Similarly, post1989 representations of Polish labour migrants in European cinema differ significantly from the image created in recent Polish drama series Londyńczycy (Londoners, 2008–2009) where stress is laid on the strong cohesive spirit within the Polish migrant community rather than the motif of a (happy) interethnic romance.https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/11063 |
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