Film i media – przeszłość i przyszłość. Kontynuacje

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The collective work edited by Andrzej Gwóźdź and Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek and published within the “Biblioteka Kwartalnika Filmowego” [Library of Kwartalnik Filmowy] – the book series under the auspices of “Kwartalnik Filmowy” [Film Quarterly], prepared by the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audivisual Arts of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The volume “Film and Media – the Past and the Future. Continuation”, prepared in cooperation with the Department of Film and Media Studies of the University of Silesia in Katowice, is the aftermath of the First Congress of Film Studies and Media Studies Researchers, which took place in June 2013 in Kamień Śląski (Poland). The book gathers twelve articles based on the papers presented at the congress and concerning a wide range of issues, such as biographical film, film noir and neo-noir, crowdsourcing films and crowdfunding, paranoid conspiracy thriller, Polish feminist movement, performance or art of acting. The volume is accompanied by English abstracts of the articles.

A mű átváltozásai

Author(s): Mihály Szegedy-Maszák / Language(s): Hungarian

The sixth book of his life work series spring from an assumption that an artwork hardly examinable in itself, unseparatable from it's mode of existance, it's always gets into new contexts and changes because of this.

A nap árnyékában

Author(s): Zádor Tordai / Language(s): Hungarian

After the communist system has collapsed, the socio-political and economical situation has changed in Central and Eastern Europe. In his essays Zádor Tordai is focusing on the analyses of the socio-political results of the system change in Central and Eastern Europe and its interpretation – from the view of a philosopher.

Film. Kép. Nyelv

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Filmowe Pejzaże Europy

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book entitled Cinematic Landscapes of Europe is a review of contemporary European cinema from the point of view of a characteristic shot of a landscape. How do European film-makers employ a landscape? Is it significant for them and does it determine the choice of particular means and ways of filming? These questions are being answered by the authors of the ten essays. Each article takes into consideration a set of films in which a landscape plays an important role. Sometimes it is understood in a metaphoric way, as an element of authorial narration (the articles by Ilona Copik on post-industrial landscape generating social issues and the article by Wojciech Sitek on the films of “broken Britannia”). Another area of investigation is urban landscape, understood in a symbolic way (the article by Andrzej Gwóźdź demonstrating how the Berlin wall has [not] existed in the cinema and the essay by Przemysław Pieniążek which offers the interpretation of the infernal landscape of the films of Dario Argento). A comprehensive conceptualization of cinematic landscape can be found in the interpretation of Spanish cinema, in which Joanna Aleksandrowicz juxtaposes Basque and Andalusian landscapes. The article by Karolina Kostyra conforms to the peregrination of landscapes of nature, which are an inherent element of the coming-of-age films. A completely different function is ascribed to rural landscapes in the works of Jan Jakub Kolski, which are a subject of study by Jakub Zajdel, who identifies a cinematic affection to them in the biography of the director. Finally, Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek and Natalia Gruenpeter take into consideration the authoral interpretations of landscape in the films by Bruno Dumont and Lucile Hadžihalilović.

Topografie i krajobrazy. Filmowy Śląsk

Author(s): Ilona Copik / Language(s): Polish

The book is devoted to the cultural phenomenon which is known as “filmowy Śląsk” [“the cinematographical Silesia”]. The author analyses and interprets films whose common theme is the landscape of region presented on the screen, in the process of its transformation: from an industrial to a post-industrial one. She treats cinematographical works as “geographical and cultural events” i.e. forms of creative activity (images/texts and artistic practices), which constitute representations/constructions of a place. The fundamental theses of the work are focused on the statements that, on the one hand, in the place which is represented on the screen, there are intersecting senses and discourses of a given culture, which one may decode in the course of an analysis, and, on the other hand, cinema participates in cultural processes, it participates in the mediatised production of culture and identity. Further chapters constitute a development of these theses in the perspective of the relations which obtain between Silesia, cinema, the landscape, identity and memory – individual and collective memory (national, regional). In this work, the keyword is landscape – a concept which links the themes of the relation between the thing which is real/mediated, aesthetic and cultural, demonstrative/experiential, etc. A cinematographical landscape here constitutes an image of a country (of a place), an object of a particular “visibility” which is accessible to the faculty of vision, and at the same time a pretext for anthropological considerations oriented toward the forms of some kind of participation in the screen-related space, of its co-experiencing and deliberation.

Glamour, kobiecość, widowisko. Aktorka jako obiekt pożądania

Author(s): Agata Łuksza / Language(s): Polish

The monograph concerns two fields of studies of a theatre: woman’s studies and popular genres’ studies. The author analyses a double relation between the femininity and the performance using the category of “glamour”, understood as a visual code rising in the city milieu. This code generates and controls the spectators’ desires. The author examines not only the historical genres (in which the actress was glamorized and as result the new model of femininity “glamour” was shaped) but also the attempts of impeachment of this model made in the theatre from the second half of the 20th century.

A Dictionary of Film Terms and Film Studies

Author(s): Andrzej Weseliński / Language(s): English

his dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the discipline of film studies, including key theoretical and technical terms, overviews of film genres and movements, film adaptations of literature, the Hollywood studio system, film industry practices, and the impact of digital technologies in cinema.

Widzialność wyzwolona

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The collective work edited by Andrzej Gwóźdź and Natalia Gruenpeter (coediting) and published within the “Biblioteka Kwartalnika Filmowego” [Library of Kwartalnik Filmowy] – the book series under the auspices of “Kwartalnik Filmowy” [Film Quarterly], prepared by the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The volume “Liberated Visibility” is the aftermath of the Second Congress of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies, which took place in December 2016 in Kraków (Poland). The book gathers fifteen articles based on the papers presented at the congress (within the panel discussion under the same title as the book) and concerning a wide range of issues, such as philosophy of technical image, apophatic techno-ontology, generative document, video mapping of architecture, film trailer, mobile media, biological and post-human cinema or virtual reality. The volume is accompanied by English abstracts of the articles and English notes on authors and editors.

Media społecznościowe. Dialog w cyberprzestrzeni. Tom 1

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish

The present volume constitutes the first part of the collection of texts devoted to the problem of social media – the phenomenon of contemporary participatory culture. Social media, which have become the indicator of successive stage in the development of the Internet called Web 2.0, organize the social life of their users in more and more extensive range. The effects of the development of social media and their influence on future social relations is hard to anticipate in view of tech acceleration and rapid social changes. Nevertheless, the increase in the number of users and their internet activity forces the researchers to undertake the problem of social media in the context of numerous academic disciplines. [fragment of preface]

Krzysztof Mętrak

Author(s): Barbara Giza,Piotr Zwierzchowski / Language(s): Polish

tom 3 serii Polscy Krytycy FilmowiKrzysztof Mętrak był cudownym dzieckiem swojej epoki. Najmłodszy członek Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich, którym został w wieku zaledwie 21 lat, nie tylko pisał wiele, lecz także na wiele tematów. Był bardzo wrażliwym, może nawet nadwrażliwym, obserwatorem rzeczywistości społecznej, politycznej i kulturalnej swoich czasów. Spojrzenie na Mętraka jako krytyka, który stworzył własną definicję tej profesji i konsekwentnie działał w jej ramach, jako erudytę, poetę, miłośnika sportu i kultury popularnej, uczestnika oraz aktywnego członka warszawskiej elity intelektualnej okresu PRL i wczesnych lat dziewięćdziesiątych, daje portret skomplikowany, wymykający się niejednoznacznym ocenom, ale z pewnością uświadamia znaczenie tej twórczości w kształtowaniu krytyki filmowej jako domeny intelektu najwyższej próby. Kolejne tomy serii dotyczyć będą innych ważnych dla polskiej krytyki filmowej postaci, m. in. Marii Kornatowskiej, Jerzego Płażewskiego, Bolesława Michałka, Krzysztofa Teodora Toeplitza, Zygmunta Kałużyńskiego. Zamiarem redaktorów jest naszkicowanie obrazu krytyki oraz zrekonstruowanie roli, jaką niegdyś odgrywała. Być może okaże się to pomocne dla podjęcia dyskusji o specyfice, funkcji, a nawet zasadności istnienia krytyki filmowej w dzisiejszej rzeczywistości.Barbara Giza i Piotr ZwierzchowskiW tomie publikują: Mariusz Czubaj, Barbara Giza, Karol Jachymek, Monika Jacygrad, Rafał Koschany, Marcin Maron, Robert Mielhorski, Adam Wyżyński, Janusz Zaorski, Piotr Zwierzchowski.

Maria Kornatowska

Author(s): Barbara Giza,Piotr Zwierzchowski / Language(s): Polish

tom 4 serii Polscy Krytycy FilmowiMaria Kornatowska doskonale czuła ducha czasu, wychwytywała zmiany społeczne i obyczajowe, świetnie orientowała się we współczesnym życiu artystycznym, ale przede wszystkim wierzyła w kino, w jego magię i sztukę obrazu. Szukała w nim niejednoznaczności, nieoczywistości, tego, co ukryte. O niektórych filmach opowiadała, odsłaniała ich znaczenia, wychwytywała konteksty, tworzyła ich sensy, te najważniejsze (jak Federica Felliniego i Wojciecha Jerzego Hasa, jej dwóch wielkich filmowych miłości) były dla niej towarzyszami podróży w wędrówce przez kulturę, obraz i tajemnicę. Skupiamy się zaledwie na kilku tematach, motywach przewodnich jej twórczości, które jednak pozwalają pokazać wnikliwość interpretacyjną, zanurzenie w kulturze, kunszt pisarski, nie tylko krytycznofilmową osobowość. Maria Kornatowska oferowała czytelnikowi styl i nieoczywistość spojrzenia. Bezbłędnie odczytywała światy kulturowych znaczeń, także je tworzyła. Miała wszystkie te cechy, które sprawiają, że krytyk staje się autorem, kimś, kto kreuje świat tak samo jak artysta.Kolejne tomy serii dotyczyć będą innych ważnych dla polskiej krytyki filmowej postaci, m.in. Jerzego Płażewskiego, Bolesława Michałka, Krzysztofa Teodora Toeplitza, Zygmunta Kałużyńskiego. Zamiarem redaktorów jest naszkicowanie obrazu krytyki oraz zrekonstruowanie roli, jaką niegdyś odgrywała. Być może okaże się to pomocne dla podjęcia dyskusji o specyfice, funkcji, a nawet zasadności istnienia krytyki filmowej w dzisiejszej rzeczywistości.W tomie publikują:Barbara Giza, Alicja Helman, Annette Insdorf, Karol Jachymek, Małgorzata Jakubowska, Katarzyna Mąka‑Malatyńska, Anna Osmólska‑Mętrak, Agnieszka Polanowska, Małgorzata Radkiewicz, Grażyna Stachówna, Monika Talarczyk, Piotr Zwierzchowski.

New Media Behind the Iron Curtain. Cultural History of Video Microcomputers and Satellite Television in Communist Poland

Author(s): Piotr Sitarski,Maria B. Garda,Krzysztof Jajko / Language(s): English

During the years of the Polish People’s Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. Travel was restricted, as was access to out- side culture and goods. This unique situation led to a period of great ingenuity in the realm of new media. Not only were media adapted to suit Poles’ needs, but new technology was fashioned to gain access to western television, film and video games. Bringing people together, VCRs, computers and satellite television were thus a window to the outside world and contemporary to the mobilisation of Solidarity and the end of communism. As such, their diffusion is an important but largely overlooked aspect of Poland’s history. Acutely aware of this, the authors of this book recount new media behind the Iron Curtain in a way that will appeal to scholars and non-academic readers alike. Coupling archival research with in depth interviews, they bring to life the talent and determination of the PPR’s new media pioneers, compelling others to dig further.“One of the strengths of this book, which makes it such a delightful read, is the feeling of chaotic technical experimentation with objects and practices whose meaning has not yet been settled, in a context where the authorities tried to be controlling and restrictive but were mostly incapable of understanding what they should do in order to achieve this.”– from the Foreword by Graeme Kirkpatrick

Film – náš pomocník: Studie o (ne)užitečnosti českého krátkého filmu 50. let

Author(s): Dominika Bäuchelová,Veronika Jančová,Jana Kokešová,Barbora Ligasová,Eliška Malečková,Soňa Morgenthalová,Barbora Rudinská,Kateřina Šardická,Klára Váradi / Language(s): Czech

The collective monograph summarizes the results of the research in the history of the Czech short film of the 1950s, conducted by students of the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture at Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. Studies focusing on particular areas of industrial, agricultural, army, sports, cultural and other kinds of films discuss the cultural-political and economic conditions of developing this type of work, a thematic link with the requirements of the contracting authorities (especially the state), and their relation to other media that contracting institutions used to spread the same type of message. Besides the context, the essays examine also rhetorical and stylistic features of films. Two of the texts focus on specific distribution windows which short films entered namely the People's Film University of and cinemas called Čas (Time). Among others, these texts show that despite the programmatic approach the authorities failed to apply its cultural policy as expected. Studies balance ideological, economical and entertaining potential of short films, a show in which cases which one of them pushed and thus to what extent films understood as useful servants were really helpful.

„Kłopotliwe” ciała. Strategie przedstawiania fizycznej „anormalności” we współczesnym filmie fikcji

Author(s): Adam Cybulski / Language(s): Polish

Within disability studies, discipline developing for the last thirty years, subject of particular interest were audio-visual representations of physical ‘abnormality’. However, in scientific literature it is storyline and generally understood occurrences that are analysed: personal traits of disabled protagonist, his or her social status, actions, introspections or his or her relationship with the society. The question of stylistic and narration devices, and the aesthetics of display-oriented construction of defectiveness are usually not taken into consideration. In order to add to and broaden this perspective author of this dissertation used selected methods of Neoformalism and Cognitive film theory. Strategy of narration, diegetic dominant and viewer engagement helped in exhibiting how defective bodies were used as visual attractions, distinguishing four modes of contemporary storytelling discussed in context of a long tradition of portraying visible dissimilarities and explaining methods of managing ‘troublesome’ bodies with instances of narrating.

Ameryka

Author(s): Filip Lipiński / Language(s): Polish

The book Ameryka. Rewizje wizualnej mitologii Stanów Zjednoczonych [America. Revisions of the Visual Mythology of the United States] is a critical analysis of the formation and the subsequent revisions of what the author describes as American visual myths. These myths are embedded in the vast field of visuality, models of vision, images, art and other objects of visual culture, such as film. Ameryka was written, first of all, from the perspective of an art historian, but also an Americanist, hence it offers an interdisciplinary scholarly proposition combining reflections in the fields of art history, visual culture studies and American studies. Following an extensive theoretical introduction, all the chapters are separate but correlated with the book as a whole: there are case studies of the creation of myth-images, particularly in the 19th century, in their diverse forms and media and, more importantly, of how they were revised in art and visual culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Throughout the book, the author draws an important distinction between the United States and America, which is understood as a symbolic-imaginary field or screen within which American mythology is formed, primarily to neutralize difference and unify the heterogenous American nation. The extensive analyses of artworks, popular images and films demonstrate the way American mythology was gradually deconstructed, especially from the mid-20th century, as a result of the awakening of political consciousness of the marginalized groups, the surge of civil rights struggle and changes within the broader social-cultural landscape of the United States. At the same time, despite these internal interventions and the subsiding economic and cultural hegemony of the USA on the global scene during recent decades, by referring to specific cases and issues of American visuality, the author claims that the basic coordinates of the myth continue to serve as a lasting frame of reference.

Il linguaggio dello spettacolo. Lessico italiano-polacco del teatro, del cinema, della radio edella televisione

Author(s): Tomasz Kaczmarek,Anna Jarosz / Language(s): Polish,Italian

The monograph constitutes a compendium of knowledge related to the field of artistic performances approached in their diverse aspects, such as theatre, cinema, television and radio as well as dance, music, circus, press or art. The academic dimension of the work is manifested in the theoretical thorough literature overview, which introduces the reader into the world of artistic performances outlining at the same time their historical development, the interdisciplinary and complex nature of the corpus as well as extensive and rich bibliography. Since the monograph addresses the needs of a wide range of readers (i.e. translators, students, literary scholars, linguists and artistic performance lovers), it has the potential to exert considerable social influence.

Já z hvězd svou moudrost nevyčet… : Studentský sborník intermediálních analýz

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

The volume consists of two parts, one of which comprises analyses of filmic transmediations of Shakespeare’s sonnets (The Sonnetproject, New York Shakespeare Exchange 2013), the other analyses of literary ekphrases (by W. Szymborska, U. Fanthorpe, J. Stone etc.). It results from an Intermedial studies seminar held in 2021 within the program Literature and Intercultural Communication at Masaryk University, Brno. The contributions display various approaches that fall under two main intermedial methods, literature-centered (introduced by Werner Wolf), which focuses primarily on a semantic analysis of the original text, and literature-oriented (as suggested by Irina Rajewsky), which respects the transmediation as an autonomous representation and observes its relations to the pretext mainly retrospectively; and even a comparative one, which involves a translinguistic analysis of translations as intercultural and historical transfers.

Przeostrzenia

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book summarizes two moments of political breakthrough, which allows to look at Polish history in the 20th century not only from the perspective of violent transformations, but also long-lasting social, political and cultural narratives, reflected in Polish film productions, the organization of the film industry and the expectations the film audiences held of Polish cinema. The authors reflect on the narratives Polish filmmakers had to face, what elements of these narratives are present in Polish films which today prove both socio-political shocks and continuity and which form the complicated genealogy of the Third Polish Republic. The texts addressing this issue in German, Russian and Czechoslovakian cinema allow for seeing both transformations in Polish cinema in the transnational context.

TANULMÁNYOK A BÖLCSÉSZETTUDOMÁNYOK KÖRÉBŐL AJTONY ZSUZSANNA SZÜLETÉSNAPJÁRA

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Hungarian

The volume greets Dr Zsuzsanna Ajtony, Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. It is a tribute to her career as a secondary school teacher and later as a university staff member and researcher, whose guiding principle is: “I have been preoccupied with the combination of language teaching, literature, and the joy of reading ever since I started the teaching profession or since this profession ‘chose’ me.” The writings collected in this volume are related mainly to her fields of interest (language teaching, linguistics, imagology, literature, and translation studies), but they also provide insight into other related fields of the humanities (film studies, history, cultural history). On the occasion of the round anniversary, through the language and code system of scientific research, we wish her joyful and fruitful work in the future!