„Polska Światłoczuła” – kino objazdowe i jego publiczność w XXI wieku

Abstract

The goal of this article is sociological reflection about polish traveling cinema, the audience and reception of polish cinema on the basis of three years of observations during the route of traveling cinema “Polska Światłoczuła”. The text uses literature from the field of sociology of culture and art and sociology of film, which were devoted sociological researches of cinema and film. The cinema is considered as a social institution, and the film as a cultural product and human experience. The sociology of film in Poland currently has not developed. The article reminds a heritage of polish sociology of film and describes in this field history and social frame of traveling cinema. This old institution (from the perspective of technological development), operates in the 21st century as a holiday in Poland.