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SUMMARY:Cinema and Censorship in Post-war Poland - Dr Matilda Mroz
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:What function did Polish films fulfill in post-war society\, w
 hen much of the country lay in ruins? What kind of function could they ful
 fill under the system of censorship imposed by the Soviet government? This
  talk provides an overview of the convoluted and unpredictable system of c
 ensorship\, which banned some films immediately\, and allowed other provoc
 ative works to slip through the net. Censorship necessitated the developme
 nt of new ways of communicating with audiences\, relying\, for example\, o
 n implied metaphors concealed beneath a veneer of realism. I examine parti
 cularly the way in which war films of the 1950s became memorial practices\
 , commemorating those Polish military groups that\, due to their anti-Sovi
 et stance\, were denied commemoration in the usual forms of statues and mo
 numents.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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