Description

• Title:
  Social Attitudes Towards Historical Films in Contemporary Poland
• Creator:
  Białous, Maciej
• Description:
  Social research indicates that feature films are invariably among the most common sources for acquiring knowledge about the past. Therefore, films are a crucial element of public history and collective memory. However, quantitative social research usually does not focus on how audiences perceive films about history. This article attempts to fill this gap, using the results of a qualitative study involving eight focus group interviews conducted among Polish viewers of historical films. The article answers the questions of how audiences define the historical film genre (paying particular attention to temporal, historical truth and subject criteria), what functions they ascribe to it (educational, emotionalizing, entertaining, political) and what relevance contemporary viewing practices (such as fragmentation of viewing practices, popular interest in series) have for public history and collective memory.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pl ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Maciej Białous
• Date:
  2025.10.27
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 38 No. 47 (2025): Faces of Visual History; 65-78;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 38 Nr 47 (2025): Faces of Visual History; 65-78;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/49828/40301
• Subject:
  public history;
  historical film;
  collective memory;
  memory politics;
  contemporary Polish cinema
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/49828
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text