Contemporary audiovisual culture 3700-CS1-2-WKA
The aim of the interactive lecture is to introduce and explore various social and cultural aspects of contemporary audiovisual culture. While the lecture will provide a general historical overview of the audiovisual culture, particular attention will be paid to the transition from a modern to a digital postmodern culture, as well as to the transformation from the analog to the digital. The lecture will also provide an overview of contemporary theories of media (including social media and Netflix revolution).
Type of course
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge: students completing the course will be familiar with and understand:
- different disciplines related to cultural studies, together with their distinctive subject matter and methodologies;
- the basic terminology of literary studies and cultural studies;
- the theories and methodologies of disciplines dealing with cultural studies;
- the links between humanities disciplines and the unique relations between different disciplines connected with cultural studies; they will acquire the basics of an interdisciplinary approach in cultural studies;
- classical philosophy authors and their ideas;
- contemporary directions of cultural studies;
- the latest achievements in developing interdisciplinary research methods in cultural studies and possible new directions of this research;
- the latest achievements in developing interdisciplinary research methods in cultural studies and possible new directions of this research;
- the basic analysis methods typical of cultural anthropology, including the most important theories and traditions of different schools that emerged during the discipline’s development;
- the importance of the complex nature of language in philological and cultural studies research, be familiar with the principles of the semiotics of language and culture;
- contemporary cultural life in Poland and a selected country of the Mediterranean area;
- the relationships between cultural development and social change
Skills: students completing the course will be able to
- retrieve and interpret information using different sources, including Latin and Neo-Latin sources, literary and historical texts, anthropological sources;
- interpret a work of visual art, also in the context of other sources from a given period;
- resolve research problems and produce studies on research topics while applying the main theoretical approaches and paradigms from knowledge on culture, including cultural anthropology, philology, history and the semiotics of culture;
- take part in discussions on cultural studies topics, including presenting logical argumentation and drawing critical conclusions
- present the results of their own analysis of a simple research problem in written and oral form
- autonomously identify the main theses of an oral presentation / written text in Polish and in a selected language of the Mediterranean area;
- produce a written and oral presentation taking into account the different needs of their prospective audience, using basic digital tools and internet resources useful for this purpose;
Social competences: students completing the course will be ready to
- be aware of the need for and principles of teamwork in an interdisciplinary group;
- work in a group, both as a moderator and a member performing a given task;
- carry out the work plan of their contribution to a class, according to the teacher’s guidelines
- understand the main challenges related to research on culture and inter-civilizational relations;
- take part actively in discussions in Polish and a selected Mediterranean language, respecting the views of their partners
Bibliography
1. Zestaw klasycznych tekstów przygotowany przez prowadzącego (R. Ingarden, M. McLuhan, A. Malaraux, A. Bazin, J. Łotman, U. Eco i in.)
2. Antropologia kultury wizualnej, red. I. Kurz, P. Kwiatkowska, Ł. Zaremba, wyd. UW, Warszawa 2012.
3. Badanie wizualne w działaniu, praca zbiorowa, red. M. Frąckowiak, K. Olechnicki, wyd. Bęc Zmiana, Warszawa 2011.
4. M. Bal, Wizualny esencjonalizm i przedmiot kultury wizualnej, tłum. M. Bryl, w: Perspektywy współczesnej historii sztuki. Antologia przekładów „Artium Quaestones”, red. M. Bryl, P. Juszkiewicz, P. Piotrowski, W. Suchocki, wyd. UAM, Poznań 2012.
5. J. Berger, Spojrzenie, w: tegoż, Sposoby widzenia, tłum. M. Bryl, wyd. Fundacja Aletheia, Warszawa 2008.
6. Ł. Biskupski, Prosto z ulicy. Sztuki wizualne w dobie mediów społecznościowych i kultury uczestnictwa, wyd. Bęc Zmiana, Warszawa 2018.
7. Fotospołeczeństwo. Antologia tekstów z socjologii wizualnej, red. M. Bogunia-Borowska, P. Sztompka, Znak, Kraków 2012.
8. M. Hopfinger, Doświadczenie audiowizualne, wyd. Sic!, Warszawa 2003.
9. G. Rose, Interpretacja materiałów wizualnych, tłum. E. Klekot, PWN, Warszawa 2010.
10. N. Mirzoeff, Jak zobaczyć świat, tłum. Ł. Zaremba, Karakter, Kraków 2016.
11. Teatr wobec filmu, film wobec teatru, red. E. Patryga, G. Nadrodkiewicz, Oficyna Wyd. Errata, Warszawa 2015 (artykuł: M. Kościelniak, „Iwona in the movie”. Pogranicze teatru i filmu w „Iwonie, księżniczce Burgunda” Krzysztofa Garbaczewskiego).
12. S. Voegelin, Słuchając hałasu i ciszy. Ku filozofii sztuki dźwiękowej, tłum. P. Bożek, G. Nowak, „Teksty Drugie” 2015, nr 5.
13. W. Wilczyk, Niewinne oko nie istnieje, wyd. Ha!art, Warszawa 2009.
Additional information
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