A bassa voce. I dibattiti sul Risorgimento nei discorsi della critica cinematografica polacca .......... 165

Authors

Bartosz Kwieciński
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/9788383684000.05

Synopsis

IN A LOW VOICE: DEBATES ON THE RISORGIMENTO IN THE DISCOURSES OF POLISH FILM CRITICISM

The article explores the reception and reinterpretation of Italian Risorgimento narratives in Polish cultural discourse, focusing on translation and film criticism under the ideological conditions of the Polish People’s Republic. Drawing on examples such as Edmondo De Amicis’s Cuore, Florestano Vancini’s Bronte, Alessandro Blasetti’s 1860, Roberto Rossellini’s Viva l’Italia!, and Luchino Visconti’s Senso and Il Gattopardo, it examines how Polish critics reframed the Risorgimento through a romantic independence paradigm. The study argues that this Italian historical experience, while ideologically tolerated, remained a marginal, elite narrative, overshadowed by domestic myths of national struggle and subject to mechanisms of censorship and political adaptation.

Author Biography

Bartosz Kwieciński, Jagiellonian University

PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Communication and Media Policy, Jagiellonian University, formerly affiliated with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the same institution. A film historian and media scholar specializing in antisemitic propaganda. Author of Images and Stereotypes: Between the Poles of Visual Memory of the Holocaust. Participant in National Humanities Development Program projects on Jewish pogroms and representations of the Holocaust in Polish culture. His recent publications include chapters in Representations of the Holocaust in Polish Culture (1939-2019) (IBL PAS, 2021) and in the journal Jewish History Quarterly. He collaborates with the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

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Volume

Idea Risorgimento w refleksji polsko-włoskiej = L’idea di risorgimento nella riflessione italo-polacca

Published

19 December 2025

Categories

Copyright (c) 2025 Małgorzata Kiwior-Filo (Volume editor), Mirela Marta Banach (Volume editor)

How to Cite

Kwieciński, Bartosz. 2025. “A Bassa Voce. I Dibattiti Sul Risorgimento Nei Discorsi Della Critica Cinematografica Polacca . 165”. In Idea Risorgimento W Refleksji Polsko-włoskiej = L’idea Di Risorgimento Nella Riflessione Italo-Polacca, edited by Małgorzata Kiwior-Filo and Mirela Marta Banach. Poland: Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing. https://doi.org/10.12797/9788383684000.05.