Published: 2019-02-131

Film Character as a Vehicle of Religious Meaning: Screen Images of Churchmen and Churchwomen in the Polish Cinema and Television since 2000 as a Means of Sociological and Cultural Message on Contemporary Religiosity

Mariola Marczak
Media - Culture - Social Communication
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3022

Abstract

The author explores the issue of churchmen and churchwomen as film characters conforming and evoking religious and transcendent meanings in films. She states – referring to Hans Belting’s Faces – that the way of shaping them on screen (both in the cinema and on television) reflects social approaches towards religion, in the Polish audiovisual arts – especially towards the Catholic Church. In this essay, the vast analyses of Polish films and TV series, released in 2000 and later on, dealing with the function of the particular protagonists (those associated to the Catholic Church) in its screen works is present. Out of those films and series, the author tries to consider the perception of the Catholic Church and its officials in modern Polish society.

Keywords:

film figure, priest, nun, monk, Christianity, Polish Church, Polish society, audiovisual portrait, social image

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Marczak, M. (2019). Film Character as a Vehicle of Religious Meaning: Screen Images of Churchmen and Churchwomen in the Polish Cinema and Television since 2000 as a Means of Sociological and Cultural Message on Contemporary Religiosity. Media - Culture - Social Communication, 2(12), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3022

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