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Faculty of Philology
Cultural Studies Department
Academic year 2015/2016
Course title Aesthetics of the Nō Theatre
Form* D
Level of course All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content Basics of the history of performative tradition in Japan. Mythical, religio-philosophical and historical background of the Nō aesthetics. Main categories of Japanese aesthetics and their application to theatrical and dramatic practice of Nō tradition. The way of Nō Actor.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. On the Art of Nō Drama. The Major Treatises of Zeami, tr. by J.T. Rimer and Y. Masakazu, Princeton University Press: Princeton 1984. 2. A.H. Thornhill III, Six Circles, One Dewdrop. The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku, Princeton University Press: Princeton 1993. 3. J. Goff, Noh Drama and “The Tale of Genji”. The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1991. 4. S. Odin, Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West. Psychic Distance in Comparative Asthetics, University of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu 2001. 5. M. Takahashi, T. Morita, K. Takaoka, Noh, Pie Books: Tokyo 2010.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Ancient Performative Traditions in Postmodern Performance
Form* D
Level of course All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content Discussions focus on the analysis of the chosen postmodern performances that re-interprets ancient performative traditions (Greek, Japan, Middle East). Discursive context is based on both the historical materials, and on the contemporary cultural and anthropological debates concerning source theatrical and aesthetic traditions.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. The Intercultural Performance Reader, ed. by P. Pavis, Routledge: London and New York 1996.
2. P.B. Zarrilli, B. McConachie, G.J. Williams, C.F. Sorgenfrei, Theatre Histories. An Introduction, ed. by G.J. Williams, 2nd edition, Routledge: London and New York 2010.
3. P. Pavis, Analyzing Performance. Theatre, Dance and Film, tr. by D. Williams, The University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 2003.
4. Na jedwabnym szlaku gestu / On the Silk Route of Gesture, ed. by W. Mond-Kozłowska, Wyd. WAM: Kraków 2012.
5. The Human Body – A Universal Sign. Towards Dance Anthropology, ed. W. Mond-Kozłowska, Jagiellonian Univesity Press: Kraków 2005.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Anthropology of Theatre
Form* D
Level of course All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content Main concepts of theatre anthropology. Theatre practice as laboratory of inter- as well as infra-cultural research. The idea of art as vehicle. Anthropology of spectatorship.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay
Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 6. E. Barba, N. Savarese, The Secret Art of Performer. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology, tr. by R. Fowler, Routledge: London and New York 1991.
7. The Grotowski Sourcebook, ed. by R. Schechner and L. Wolford, Routledge: London and New York 2007.
8. The Intercultural Performance Reader, ed. by P. Pavis, Routledge: London and New York 1996.
9. Performativity and Performance, ed. by A. Parker, Routledge: London and New York 1995.
10. T. Richards, Heart of Practice. Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Routledge: London and New York 2008.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Introduction to Cultural Performances
Form* D
Level of course All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content Basic concepts of cultural performance studies. Performative turn in culture, arts and humanities. Theatre as anthropological, aesthetic and axiological paradigm of cultural performance. Contexts and dimensions of performing identity.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. R. Schechner, Performance Studies. An Introduction, Routledge: London and New York 2002. 2. J. McKenzie, Perform or else… From Discipline to Performance, Routledge: London and New York 2001. 3. Sh. Jackson, Professing Performance. Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2004.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Theatre Studies and the Congnitive Turn
Form* D
Level of course All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter or summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content Foundations of cognitive approach to drama and theatre studies – embodiment, cognitive metaphor, image schemas, levels of processing of the sensory data, mirror neurons, etc. Neurophenomenology of theatre performance, cognitive dimensions of spectating.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay
Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. B. McConachie, Engaging Audiences. A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre, New York 2008. 2. Performance and Cognition, ed. by B. McConachie, F.E. Hart, London and New York 2006. 3.S. Di Benedetto, Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre, London and New York 2010. 4. N. Rokonitz, Trusting Performance. A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama, New York 2011. 5. J. Gottschall, Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, New York 2008.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Film Analysis
Form* L/T/D
Level of course All degrees Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2013/2014 winter and summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours
Course content
Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation.
Lecturer
Contact
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Film studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Introduction to Film Studies
Form* D
Level of course All degrees Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours
Course content The subject matter of the course is to provide students whith the tools which will enable them to define and name elements of “film language” used in all audiovisual arts. Such topics as photography, mise-en- scene, editing, sound and mise-en-shot will we discussed.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation or essey
Lecturer Kamila Żyto
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. D. Bordwell, K Thomson, Film Art: An Introduction, University of Wisconsin, all editions.
2. M. Rayan, M. Lenos, An Introduction to Film Analysis.Techinque and Meaning in Narrative Film, New York. London.
3. L. Giannetti, Understanding Movies, Prentice Hall, all editions 4. W. Buckland, Film Studies, Hodder Education, all editions
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Film studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title History of Polish Culture
Form* A Lecture
Level of course
All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer terms
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content
The lecture presents the most interesting aspects of Polish culture. It discusses them taking into account the intricate thousand-year history of Poland. The course presents Polish cultural monuments as well as their contemporary manifestations. It concerns the material culture as well as the spiritual one. The lecture presents the versatile nature of Polish art, its leading representatives and outstanding works of art. It explains the most characteristic habits and traditions determining the unique character of Polish culture. The lecture includes visits to Lodz museums and galleries in order to present the examples of different aspects of Polish culture.
Assessment scheme
Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Dariusz Leśnikowski PhD.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. A. Zamoyski, The Polish Way: A Thousand Year History of the Poles and Their Culture, Hippocrene Books, 1993.
2. Poland – History, Culture and Society, ed. by E. Bielawska-Batorowicz and R. Rasiński, Łódź 2003. 3. J. Łukowski,W. H. Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge University Press 2001. 4. R. J. Kozicki, P. Wróbel (eds), Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945, Greenwood Press, 1996. 5. Poland - Official Promotional Website, http://www.polska.pl/en/ 6. Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage, http://www.commonwealth.pl/ 7. http://culture.pl/en
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Images of Culture
Form* L/T/D
Level of course All degrees Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer semester
ECTS
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 15
Course content A subject of the classes is to present the influences between the images and
literature perceived as the dynamics of tradition and contemporary culture.
Similarities between tradition of creating painting composition, photography
and literature will show as the examples of the universal human ability of
creating images, which are the forms of describing everyday life and artistic
expression. Main problems, these meetings deal with, are the rhetoric and
narrative of images, reflected in tradition of culture and present-day social
life, art and literature and photography. Image making will be seen as the
creating metaphors and stories in art, photography and literature.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation.
Lecturer Mariusz Gołąb, dr hab.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. Hans Belting, An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body
2. John Berger, About Looking
3. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and Latin Middle Ages
4. François Soulages, Esthetique de la photographie
5. Bernd Stiegler, Bilder der Photographie
6. Scott Walden, Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of
Nature
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies, history, anthropology and criticue of literature
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Painting and Graphic Arts – Technology and Beauty
Form* A Lecture, Tutorial
Level of course
All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer terms
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content
The lecture concerns essential aspects of history of painting and graphic arts as well as the painting and printmaking craftsmanship. It presents the classical painting and graphic techniques, their technological and artistic aspects. Students learn the basic terminology relating to art. They have the opportunity to know and recognize various methods of preparing and making painted and printed images. The lecture includes visits to Lodz museums and galleries in order to verify the theoretical information in practice and present the works of the leading Polish artists.
Assessment scheme
Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Dariusz Leśnikowski PhD.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. J. Skull, Key Terms In Art Craft And Design, Elbrook Press, 1988. 2. Drawing & Painting Techniques (A Step By Step Guide), Ltd De Agostini
UK, Amber, 2007. 3. R. Mayer, The Artists Handbook of Materials And Techniques, Viking,
1991. 4. R. Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms And Techniques, 1969. 5. Ch. Fiell, P. Fiell (eds),Contemporary Graphic Design, Taschen Publishers,
2008. 6. J. Ross, C. Roman, The Complete Printmaker , Free Press, 1991. 7. B. Gascoigne, How To Identify Prints, Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Theatre and Counterculture
Form* A Lecture and Discussion
Level of course
All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer terms
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content
The lecture concerns the events which were rooted in the countercultural
movement of the 1960s and resulted in the phenomenon of the so-called
Second Theatre Reform. It presents the activities of practitioners and
theatre theoreticians within the institutional, students and alternative
theatre of the 1970s and 1980s. The programme of the course includes
presentations of theatre theories (e.g. Poor Theatre), poetics and forms of
presentations (street theatre, theatre of movement), streams (political
theatre, feminist theatre). The lecture discusses the ways the theatre alters
the traditional model of the performance, the way of acting and the role of
an actor-performer as an initiator of changes in social and political life.
Assessment scheme
Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Dariusz Leśnikowski PhD.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. M. W. Doyle, Staging the Revolution: Guerilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965-1968 [in:] Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture in the 1960s and ‘70s, New York 2002.
2. A. Aronson, American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History (Theatre Production Studies), Routledge 2000.
3. Dreams and Deconstruction. Alternative theatre in Britain, ed. by S. Craig, Amber Line Press, 1980.
4. M. C. Pasquier, Le théâtre américain d'aujourd'hui, Paris 1978. 5. F. Jotterand, Le Nouveau théâtre américain, Paris, Seuil, 1970. 6. D. Leśnikowski, Towards the Modern Alternative Theatre in Poland
[in:] Poland – History, Culture and Society, ed. by E. Bielawska-Batorowicz and R. Rasiński, Łódź 2003.
7. A. Grodzicki, Polish theatre directors, transl. by Lucyna
Tomaszewska, Warszawa 1979.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title Theatre Performance Analysis
Form* Discussion based on theatre presentations
Level of course
All degrees
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and summer terms
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours 10
Course content
The classes are intended to be practical. Recordings of carefully selected theatre performances presenting a variety of trends and poetics of the contemporary theatre are the starting point for the discussion. Different methodological approaches considered during the analysis correspond with the following poetics and means of expression used in the performances. The performances allow the participants to capture and discuss the significant historical, social, political and cultural contexts standing behind the presented Polish theatre creations.
Assessment scheme
Active participation, final essay.
Lecturer Dariusz Leśnikowski PhD.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature 1. D. Leśnikowski, Towards the Modern Alternative Theatre in Poland [in:] Poland – History, Culture and Society, pod red. E. Bielawskiej-Batorowicz i Ryszarda Rasińskiego, Łódź 2003, p. 241-264. 2. L. Śliwonik, The theatre life – A try at prognostication, “Bulletin de la Societe de Sciences et de Lettres de Łódź”, serie: “Recherches sur les Arts” 1993, 2-3, p. 39-45. 3. A. Grodzicki, Polish theatre directors, transl. by Lucyna Tomaszewska,
Warszawa 1979.
4. Wielopole/Wielopole: An Excercise in Theatre by Tadeusz Kantor , introd. G.M. Hyde, London 2000. 5. J. Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre, Routledge 2002
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies Theatre studies
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other
Course title The Jewish Lodz, from the beginning till today. Through literature, culture and memories
Form* D
Level of course All degrees Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree
Year/semester 2015/2016 winter and/or summer semester
ECTS 6
Language of instruction
English
No. of hours
Course content The main matter of the course is to present students the history and culture of the Jewish population of Lodz described in literature, art and memories. During our classes we will study literature, watch movies, visit places and discuss the problems of assimilation, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and coexistence of the Poles and Jews in XIX and XX century in Lodz. We want to see Lodz described by Polish, Jewish and German writers, for example by Władysław Reymont (The Promised Land), Israel Joshua Singer (The Brothers Ashkenazi), Joseph Roth ( Hotel Savoy) and others.
Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation or essay
Lecturer Joanna Podolska
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
USOS code 0000-CODE
Literature Władysław Reymont, The Promised Land, in Polish (1898), translated into English by M.H. Dziewiecki, 1928; I(srael) J(oshua) Singer, The Brothers Ashkenazi (1937) in Yiddish, translated into English by Maurice Samuel; Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy (1924) in German, translated into English by Michael Hofmann (1984); Spodenkiewicz P., The missing district: people and places of Jewish Lodz, translated by Dorota Wiśniewska, John Crust, Wydawnictwo Hobo, Lodz 2007; Kempa Andrzej, Szukalak Marek, The biographical dictionary of the Jews from Lodz. Oficyna Bibliofilów, Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense, Łódź 2006; Julian Baranowski, The Łódź Ghetto 1940-1944. Vademecum, Łódź 2005, Horwitz Gordon, Ghettostadt. Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City, 2008 and chosen novels and poetry.
Field of study/ programme
Cultural studies, literature, history
* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other