Translatorium z języka angielskiego 3 /On the Unconscious Politics of Form in Genre Cinema and Literature 3002-2KON2025K28

16/2; Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) and His Legacy; and Political Unconscious in film
and literature 
No required reading
9/3; Commodity Fetishism; Fetishism tout court; and Reification and Utopia in Mass
Culture
Reading: Fredric Jameson, ‘Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture'; 
Films: Jaws (S. Spielberg), Picnic at Hanging Rock (P. Weir)
Recommended reading: Peter Benchley, Jaws; Joann Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock; 
Recommended viewing: The Godfather I and II (F. F. Coppola)
16/3; Textures and Affects in Late Capitalism – Sci-fi and Commodity Fetishism
Reading: Michael Faber, Under the Skin ; Duncan, Pansy. Selection from The Emotional Life
of Postmodern Film (Routledge, 2020).

Figlerowicz, Marta. “Inanimism: Nymphomaniac, Under the Skin, and Capitalist Late Style,”
Camera Obscura 33.3, 2018
Films: Under the Skin (J. Glazer); Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
Recommended reading: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
23/3; Horror - the Ultimate Genre under Capitalism; Legacy and Commodification
Reading: Fredric Jameson, 'Historicism in The Shining'; Jeremi Szaniawski, 'Trick or Treat?
Genre Trouble'
Films: The Shining (S. Kubrick); The Substance (C. Fargeat, 2024)
Recommended reading: Geoffrey Cocks, “Stanley Kubrick’s Magic Mountain: Fiction as
History in The Shining.” Central European History. 2022 ; Bruno Schultz Short stories: ‘The
Book’, ‘The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’, ‘The Age of Genius’, ‘Spring’, ‘The
Cinnamon Shop’, ‘Night of the Great Season’, ‘The Birds’, ‘The Other Autumn’, ‘The
Thirteenth Month’
Recommended film: The Hourglass Sanatorium (W. J. Has)
11/5; Viruses and Globalization 
Reading: Sakyo Komatsu, Virus ; Fredric Jameson 'Totality as Conspiracy'
Film: Virus (Kenji Fukasaku, 1980)
18/5; The Frontier myth, Modern and Postmodern Western 
Reading: Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed ; Chris Rodley, Lynch on Lynch (selection)
Films: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (J. Ford), The Wizard of Oz (V. Fleming), Wild at
Heart (D. Lynch)
Recommended reading: Cahiers du Cinéma Collective, 'On Young Mr. Lincoln'; Fredric
Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
25/5; History through the Individual Lens 
Reading: Wiesław Myśliwski, A Treatise on Shelling Beans  ; Jeremi Szaniawski, “Wiesław
Myśliwski’s Ideal Cinema.” Kwartalnik Filmowy 2023/121.
Film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Q. Tarantino, 2019)
1/6; Genre and the Feel of Capitalism: Neorealism and Neo(liberal)realism 
Film: Paisa (R. Rossellini) ; Cold War (P. Pawlikowski)
Reading: Gilles Deleuze, Selection from Cinema 1 (1985); Jeremi Szaniawski: ‘Nostalgia,
Melancholia, and the Persistence of Stalin in Polish Cinema’
Recommended reading: André Bazin, André, On Neorealism
Listening to a selection of French and Polish songs
Recommended viewing: Powidoki (A. Wajda), Ida (P. Pawlikowski), Zielona granica (A.
Holland), Dom Dobry (W. Smarzowski)