Learning History Through Film 2300-KJO-46/LHF
During the course, the topics listed below will be discussed. To scrutinize them selected movies representing Polish contemporary historical cinema will be used.
1. Film and history
2. Historical drama in the context of genres
3. Subgenres of historical drama: historical epic, biopic
4. The use of genre formulas in historical cinema (melodrama, crime cinema)
5. Film and representation – film as a reworking of the past
6. Visual memory as an element of memory studies
7. Polish historical cinema -- Polish Cinema of National Remembrance
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Assessment criteria
attendance, active participation during the meetings, written assignment
Bibliography
(selected)
• Assman Aleida, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives, Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Assmann Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Memory, Archives. Trans. Aleida Assmann and David Henry Wilson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Bingham Dennis, Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre, Rutgers University Press, New Bruncwick, NY 2010.
• Cheshire Ellen, Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures, Wallflower Press, 2015
• Connerton Paul. How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Custen George F., Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History, Rutgers University Press, New Bruncwick, NY 1992.
• Durys Elżbieta, Film and Values: Polish Cinema of National Remembrance, [w:] Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland, red. Sabrina P. Ramet, Kristen Ringdal, and Katarzyna Dośpiał-Borysiak, Central European University Press, Budapeszt 2018.
• Ferro Marc, Cinema and History, transl. Naomi Greene, Wayne State University Press, Detroit (Michigan) 1988.
• Ferro Marc, The Use & Abuse of History or How the Past Is Taught, Routledge Kegan& Paul, 1984.
• Robert Toplin, History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past, 2nd edition (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
• Rosenstone Robert A., History on Film, Film on History, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2012
• Rosenstone Robert A., Visions of the Past. The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), London (England) 1995.
• White Hayden, Metahistory, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1973
• Zwierzchowski Piotr, Kino nowej pamięci. Obraz II wojny światowej w kinie polskim lat 60., Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz 2013.
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