Media, film, literature

depending on the tutorial

dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas, prof. UMK,

The aim of the tutorial is to expand students’ knowledge, skills and social competences in the field of 20th century literature and culture in English. The discussion will focus on means of remembering and representing the past. Starting with the concepts of memory, heritage and remembrance, the students will explore the problematic aspects of remembering traumatic events, on the example of WWI. The discussion will be inspired by theoretical essays, monuments and memorials, as well as selected fiction, poems and films from English-speaking countries

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dr hab. Katarzyna Więckowska

The aim of the seminar is to expand students’ knowledge of major tendencies in contemporary Anglophone film, mass media and social media. The seminar will focus on late 20th- and early 21st-century critical approaches to the study of transmedia storytelling and fandom, and will introduce key approaches in comics studies, games studies, and web studies. The discussion will be based on critical essays and media/film texts.

Assessment of knowledge (W1):

1.Graded final test

Assessment of skills (U1, U2, U3, U4):

1. Oral assignments in class

2. Oral assignments at home

Assessment of social competences (K1, K2):

1. Graded participation and in-class task completion

Assessment criteria:

fail – 0-59 %

satisfactory – 60-69 %

satisfactory plus – 70-75 %

good – 76-85 %

good plus – 86-90 %

very good – 91-100 %

dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas, prof. UMK,

The aim of the seminar is to expand students’ knowledge, skills and social competences in the field of 20th century literature and culture in English.

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dr hab. Katarzyna Więckowska

The aim of the seminar is to expand students’ knowledge of major tendencies in contemporary Anglophone film, mass media and social media.

dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas, prof. UMK,

Selected:

Jeffrey C. Alexander “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” (frag.)

Benedict Anderson "Imagined Communities" (frag.)

Paul Connerton "How Societies Remember" (frag.)

Jenny Edkins "Trauma and the Memory of Politics" (frag.)

Maurice Hallbwachs "On Collective Memory" (frag.)

Anne Whitehead "Memory" (frag.),

Rupert Brooke "The Soldier", "Peace"

John McCrae "In Flanders Fields"

Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum Est"

Isaac Rosenberg "Break of Day in the Trenches"

Siegfried Sassoon "Absolution, Counter-Attack", "The General", "Does it Matter?" "Suicide in the Trenches"

Pat Barker "Regeneration" (frag.)

Mary Borden "The Forbidden Zone" (frag.);

Ford Madox Ford "No More Parades" (frag.)

Charles Yale Harrison "Generals Die in Bed" (frag.)

Frances Itani “Deafening”, "Tell" (frag.)

William March "Company K" (frag.)

Louisa Young "My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You" (frag.)

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dr hab. Katarzyna Więckowska

Selected reading:

Christopher Eklund, “Comics studies” (2006)

Leo Eubank and Marshall Cohen (eds.), Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. (2004) (frag.)

Jon Dovey and Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures (2006) (frag.)

Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture (2006) (frag.)

Henry Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” (2004)

Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson, How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (2016) (fragments)

Alan Kirby, Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture (2011). (fragments)

Jason Mittell, “Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television” (2014)

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (frag.)

Slavoj Žižek, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real” (2004)

A selection of media texts (films, games, social media)