DŁUGIE CIENIE KOLONIALIZMU KINO JAKO POLE POLITYCZNE GLOBALNEJ KULTURY

The article reflects on the political conditioning of cinema in the context of globalisation. The author presents an approach to cinema as a historical product of the Euro-Atlantic cultural circle and the modernism that springs from it, analysing the consequences of such genealogy in terms of the role played by cinema in the contemporary, global world of post-industrialism. On the basis of ethnographic research, the author points to the phenomenon of cinema producing specific images of reality, interpreting them as a manifestation of cinema’s deep roots in social and political processes. As a consequence, cinema is characterised as a discursive political space, the cultural meaning of which goes beyond the artistic sphere, but is associated with political processes and flows of tensions.