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Author(s): Barbara Giza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2015

Konferencja została zorganizowana przez Instytut Kulturoznawstwa SWPS,Katedrę Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Społecznej SWPS, Katedrę OchronyWłasności Intelektualnej SWPS oraz redakcję bloga Kino Świata (kinoswiata.blogspot.com). Rozpoczęła ją debata ekspercka zatytułowana Kondycja polskiejkrytyki "lmowej. Między papierem a klawiaturą, której moderatorem byłWiesław Godzic. W panelu wzięli udział: Zdzisław Pietrasik („Polityka”),Michał Walkiewicz (www.Nlmweb.pl), Ola Salwa („Kino”) oraz DominikSobolewski i Tomasz Samołyk (areyouwatchingclosely.pl). Na początku debatyGodzic odrzucił, w jakiś sposób uzasadnione, przekonanie, że Nlm jakogłówne narzędzie audiowizualności umiera i stwierdził, że widzi dwie możliwedrogi współczesnej krytyki Nlmowej.

BERNHARDA RAIHA RADOŠĀ DARBĪBA LATVIJĀ: 1951–1972

Author(s): Līga Ulberte / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 2/2015

Director and theatre theoretician Bernhard Reich (1894–1972) is one of the most outstanding personalities of the German theatre of the 1920s, who, as a director and co-playwright, has collaborated with Max Reinhardt and particularly with Bertolt Brecht. In 1922, in Berlin, Reich meets Anna Lācis, with whom he leaves for the Soviet Union in 1926 and spends the rest of his life together. Having survived the reprisals of Stalin’s regime, Reich spends the last twenty years of his life in Latvia, where his creative endeavours are manifested in three ways. Firstly, Reich directs two productions in the theatre: H. Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” (Valmiera Theatre, 1956) and B. Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children” (the State Philharmonic of the Latvian SSR, 1969). Secondly, during the 1960s and 1970s, Reich publishes reviews of Latvian theatre productions and articles about playwriting abroad in the Latvian periodicals. Thirdly, a number of Latvian museums and archives house Reich’s own correspondence, mostly addressed to Lācis and discussing both professional and private issues.

THE PERCEPTION OF ASJA LACIS IN ITALY: IMPACT ON THEATRE, EDUCATION, AND POLITICS

Author(s): Eugenia Casini Ropa / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The 1970s in Italy proved to be the time of both intense cultural renewal and growing political tension, followed by street fights and violent terrorism. The breaking of traditional social and cultural models and high achievements went hand in hand in this stormy environment, facilitated by both the desire of the individual to break free and collective creativity. The latter was sustained by left-wing intellectuals and artists. Also felt was the necessity to secure once again the leading role of theatre in culture and society. In 1976, left-wing editor Feltrinelli published the translation of Asja Lācis’s memoirs into Italian, entitled “Professione – rivoluzionaria” (Profession – Revolutionist), with an introductory essay on agitprop theatre in the Weimar Republic by the author of the present paper. Those turbulent years were the fertile soil that ensured the positive perception of the book and its strong impact on theatre and education, as well as the political and cultural domains. The trespassing of officially established theatre boundaries, which developed the ideas of collectivism and overtness of the individual’s life, was inspired by Asja’s innovative experience – it encouraged numerous theatre artists to rediscover the ethical sense in their routine work.

PROLETĀRISKĀS MĀKSLAS APRISES STARPKARU POSMA LATVIJAS KREISAJĀ PERIODIKĀ

Author(s): Stella Pelše / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 2/2015

In the left-wing magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, the visual art has been analysed from variously emphasised left-wing positions; even though, on the whole, literature seemed to be a more important weapon in the ideological battle. “Laikmets” (“Epoch”) (1923) was the least politicised periodical, advocating active, modern art opposed to stagnant bourgeois traditions, and promoting, for instance, the activism of author Andrejs Kurcijs, which was related to the ideas of the French purism. “Domas” (“Thoughts”) (1912–1915; 1924–1934) was a more long-lived periodical, aspiring to be a sophisticated culture magazine with more elaborate essays, such as Kurcijs’s draft for his publication “On Art” and the article “The Sociology of Creativity” by literary scholar Pēteris Birkerts. The highlights of the magazine “Trauksme” (“Alert”) (1928– 1929) included the statement by poet Pēteris Ķikuts about constructivism being more akin to the expressionists’ depth than to the impressionists’ superficial sliding over the surface of life. In “Signāls” (“Signal”) (1928–1930), a publication which was socialdemocratic in orientation, Voldemārs Branks wrote about art, inspired by the ideas of Leo Tolstoy and Hippolyte Taine, as well as emphasising the importance of the content and the accessibility of art. On the other hand, magazine “Kreisā Fronte” (“Left Front”) (1928–1930), edited by Linards Laicens, was related to the Russian constructivism by calling for the abandonment of the visual art in the name of producing useful things. The coexistence of modernistic, realistic and utilitarian versions echoed the Russian and European art processes of the time with the rehabilitation of mimetic traditions and ideologically motivated discrediting of the avant-garde. With the establishment of the Latvian authoritarian regime in 1934, the era of the leftist magazines in Latvia, which revealed the controversial attempts to display a more progressive outline of art, came to an end.

Nowe wiadomości dotyczące wyposażenia wnętrz pałacu w Krystynopolu w świetle nieznanego inwentarza z roku 1775

Author(s): Dagny Nestorow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2014

The present paper is concerned with the pałace at Krystynopol, ownedby Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1700-1772), the Voivode of Kiev, which in the eighteenthcentury was one of the most sumptuous aristocratic residences located in Crown Ruthenia.The pałace, built in 1691 by Szczęsny Kazimierz Potocki (1630-1720), who had foundedalso the city, was later expanded, probably by his son, Józef Felicjan, the Great Guard ofthe Crown. In the next stage, begun on the initiative of Franciszek Salezy Potocki before1755, the old edifice was completely remodelled, likely according to the plans of the architect Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille, and transformed into a magnificent aristocratic residence. After Franciszek Salezy Potockis death, his son, Stanisław Szczęsny, continuedthe expansion.The paper offers an attempt at recreating the layout of the apartments in the residence atKrystynopol, as well as their interior decoration and furnishings, on the basis of a hithertounknown and unpublished inventory of 1775, preserved in the Central State HistoricalArchives in Kiev. Very few objects from the once rich furnishings of the Krystynopolpałace have survived. Among them are: the stately bed of Anna Elżbieta Potocka, now onshow in the permanent exhibition at the castle in Pieskowa Skała, apparently identicalwhich the one mentioned in the inventory, as well as four tapestries in the same collection,from a series depicting The History of Alexander the Great (Battle ofthe Granicus, Battle ofArbela [Gaugamela], Triumphal Entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon, and King Porusbefore Alexander the Great). The Krystynopol pałace may have possessed also another setof tapestries, this time representing the episodes from The Trojan War, sińce the inventorymentions wali hangings depicting such themes. It may be assumed with some degree ofconfidence that also the two tapestries from The Trojan War series, from the collection ofthe Potocki family at Peczara and now part of the holdings of the Wawel Castle in Cracow(The Abduction of Helena and the Battle ofGreeks and Trojans), initially decorated the wallsof the Krystynopol

Binaural and Ambisonic Sound as the Future Standard of Digital Games

Author(s): Tomáš Farkaš / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The author of this study suggests an idea that the auditive element of digital games is soon going to be one of the most important factors influencing their overall success, popularity, and originality. He analyses the phenomenon of binaural and ambisonic sound, its evolution and uses in the context of modern audio-visual work, primarily focusing on games. The auditive component and its increasingly important role are analyzed in connection with the graphic design of games, virtual reality, as well as the popularity of specific games. This paper also focuses on audio-games, the use of binaural sound (which was first used ona large scale in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice) and various hybrid digital games, which are balancing between classic games and audio-games. Argumentation is based on an assumption that binaural sound is the way to ambisonic sound, which (within the context of the immersive and interactive character of digital games) predestines the new standard and shows an entirely new way of creating and using digital games at the same time. All of this is reflected in the context of the graphic design of digital games and their future.

THE ISSUE OF SLOVAK DIGITAL-GAMES’ MUSEOLOGY

Author(s): Nikola Kaňuková,Maroš Brojo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Interview with Maroš BROJO by Nikola Kaňuková

Where Codes Meet: On the Literary Uses of Iconic Signs

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Combination of Word and Image has been recently made part of literary works, with increasing frequency (e.g. novel narratives or lyrical monologues). In such cases, image becomes part of the utterance itself, finding a place for itself in a certain sender-receiver relationship arrangement, thus also becoming a pole of various meaning-generating tensions and an integral part of the entire work.The article aims at discussing the role that images, i.e. iconic signs, play in the structure of artistic pieces of this sort. The main focus is on the multiple semiotic games whose basis is the clash of differing sign-based orders, world-representing forms and communicativeconventions. Analysis of selected pieces aims at showing the multiplicity of possible functions ascribed to visual elements as part of verbal text. A comparison of the achievements of a few selected writers is also convincing of how mutually remote positions were assumed by artists against the significative value of iconic sings (from affirmation, criticism, through to problematisation).The condition for the reader to understand the arrangement s/he comes across is, therefore, to find its suspected motivations, to discover the premises providing the grounds for such a course of presentation, and, to formulate a hypothesis restoring the coherency of a text being based upon two incommensurable orders of meaning.

FÓKUSZ / Ioana Szeman: Láthatatlan színházak

Author(s): Ioana Szeman / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2018

This inquiry focuses on the question of how the figure of the passionate Gypsy has become so fashionable lately at costume parties, in soap operas and reality shows, yet without strengthening the Roma cultural identity itself. The fact that the Roma people are missing from the Romanian theatrical palette also sheds light on​ how the Roma are excluded from the institutional and state-supported forms of national culture.

Színre vitt állampolgárság. Romák, performansz és identitás az európai uniós Romániában

Author(s): László Fosztó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2018

Ioana Szeman’s new book, Staging Citizenship, reviewed by social anthropologist László Fosztó, discusses both the difficult socio-economic conditions and damaged cultural identity of the Roma people in Romania, as well as their performances and performative actions, carried out in different cultural spaces. The fieldwork​ conducted in the Roma community, depicted under a fictional name in this volume, sheds light on a series of stereotypes and representational problems associated with the Roma, as well as on the chasms in citizenship and on the cultural and political contexts of their characteristic art performances in Romania.

Философия на филма

Author(s): Thomas Е. Wartenberg / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

Philosophy of film is a new sub-field of contemporary philosophy or art. Different aspects of the film are analyzed in relation to artistic media.

QUBE 2: OBJECTIVE CLARITY

Author(s): Peter C Britton / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Review of: TOXIC GAMES: Q.U.B.E 2 (Xbox One version). [digital game]. Preston Park House : Trapped Nerve Games, 2018.

Анонсът като дигитален паратекст (върху документалните филми за комунизма в интернет)

Author(s): Snezhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

According to research, documentaries are among young people’s favorite sources of information on the time of communism in Bulgaria. Are these films announced, how are they announced, do announcement have their own message? The article looks into film announcements as a paratext with specific features on the internet. The study covers the period 2006-2015 and regards as “films on communism” the documentaries, developing plots from the period 1944-1989 in which concepts on “communism in Bulgaria” are concentrated. Announcements are viewed in connection with online platforms promoting them, on the one hand, and with cinematographic works, on the other.

Tенденции в развитието на видео блоговете в периода 01.10 – 31.12.2015 г.

Author(s): Victoria Marinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The main aims of the text is to present what are the prevailing trends and processes that take place in YouTube video blogs from 01.10. to 31.12.2015. For this purpose, a total of 50 video blogs have been compared, divided into five thematic categories, by examining the activity of the authors in the period, the approaches used to attract and retain the customer attention, the content theme and the degree of inclusion of products and services in mentioned period. The text is a part of the bachelor’s degree thesis, which was presented in the Department 'Radio and Television' of Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2016.

Неформалната култура и медиите в България през 80-те години на XX век. Диалогът не/възможен?

Author(s): Mihaela Samardzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The aim of this paper is discussing the points of interaction between Bulgarian media and non-formal culture in the 1980s. Given the complexity of the phenomenon, the tension is explained rather briefly, with some bright examples on non-formal culture incentives during that period. First, time frames are set and working definitions on the key terms are provided, i.e. non-formal culture and media. Following are the concrete examples on how media and non-formal culture interact over the period. More specifically, the selected examples are: the case of „Committee to Save Ruse“, a „public secret“ and an example for a semi-dialogue between media and non-formal culture; the installation of Nedko Solakov called „Looking at the West“ that exemplifies outstanding censorship or „dialogue made impossible“ and the „We from Kravai“ movie as an example for „dialogue made possible“. The text is a small part of my doctoral dissertation with a title: „Non-formal culture and the Bulgarian radio during the 1980s“.

Формы социальной активности молодой интеллигенции 1960-х годов в пространстве провинциального города

Author(s): Natalia Yurievna Krivopalova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2018

The article shows the activity of the young Samara intelligentsia as a part of City youth club as reflection of new social, ideological and art tendencies of the 1960-s. Forms and content of work of the clubmen seeking to become participants of public life of the city are analyzed. The main projects of club which have changed space of a country town and put significant cultural traditions are revealed.

Върху някои аспекти на хибридността в българския рок и метъл

Author(s): Plamena Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The text outlines some aspects of hybridity in Bulgarian rock and metal. The focus is on metal music, rock is included, primarily because metal is a part of it, some of the external elements, used in metal, are from other types of rock music and some hybrid forms have a controversial status – they come from metal, in part, but are they metal? In addition to stable hybrid forms, the text includes examples of milder hybridity, wherein external elements are used, without creating a new metagenre. Another accent is the hierarchy of hybrid forms, tied to the way the source genres and micro cultures are perceived. An attempt has been made to explain the importance of self-defining and “external” (or outsider) definitions for the understanding of different musical categories, their use and perception, which can affect the genre-cultural hierarchy of hybrid musics.

Проблясъци от старо злато

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

A review of professor Rosemary Statelova’s book “Estrada and Socialism: Glimpses”

И всеки оставя по нещо, за да има следващият какво да руши

Author(s): Vladimir Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019

„Образователни кинохоризонти“ в полето на медиа образованието

Author(s): Penka Kozhuharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

Educational Cinematic Horizons in the Field of Media Education