Rozkrajanie amerykańskiego snu skalpelem "Mitu Syzyfa". Egzystencjalizm i diagnoza amerykańskiego kryzysu w serialu "Fargo".

Author(s): Pola Sobaś-Mikołajczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In my paper I focus on presenting the American crisis on the example of theseries Fargo. The Coen brothers show different heroes in the role of contemporary Sisyphus. Drawing on the philosophy of Sartre and Kierkegaard, they analyzethe existential condition of their characters and expose the American dream. They entangle the characters into economic, emotional and living crises in orderto expose the illusion of emancipation in capitalism.

Rozwój złożonej narracyjności w amerykańskich serialach.

Author(s): Artur Borowiecki / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Modern television series are a product of quality television and thus significantly differ from the models that have been deeply rooted in serial culture sincethe very beginning of the media’s existence. At that time, the dominating category constituted series with an episodic structure closed within one episode. Nowadays, the dominant format is the narrative continuity. The text aims to show the series in which the creators used innovative solutionsas a result of which a new narrative paradigm was formed, described as a „narrative complexity”. The article briefly analyzes various series genres: soapoperas, sitcoms and postmodernist series. All the examples cited represent a differenttypes of multi-threaded balance, that affects the evolution of narrative patterns.

"Mr. Robot" czyli powrót paranoi.

Author(s): Magdalena Bałaga / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to show the functioning and the role of paranoid obsessions in television series Mr. "Robot" (2015) and Thomas Pynchon’s novels. Although it seems that the novels of the American writer and the screenplay havelittle in common, both use a paranoid way of thinking as a creative response tosocietal experience.

"Jordskott". Las zaginionych, czyli przekraczanie granic Nordic noir.

Author(s): Tomasz Adamski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The TV crime drama is one of the most popular genres for European audiencesand arguably also the most culturally sensitive and nuanced. The authorin his article analyzes one of the Swedish examples of crime drama called Jordskott. Author interprets it through the prism of the Nordic noir aesthetics whilech aracterizing this concept. In the course of analyzes, however, he notices thatthe "Jordskott" series escapes the genre framework and is located somewhere at the intersection of such film aesthetics as: "Nordic noir", ecological thriller, horror orfairy tale.

Tele-saga jako narzędzie współtworzenia medialnych narracji: poprawa wizerunku homoseksualnych mężczyzn na przykładzie bohatera "M jak miłość".

Author(s): Anna Felskowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, affirmative imagesof homosexual men began to appear in both Polish cinema and drama series. Several factors contributed to this, including the “influence of the West” after Poland had joined the European Union. Driven by socio-political changes, theimprovement of gay men’s media image can be observed on the example of themale character of the Polish soap opera "M jak miłość" (L for Love) – Grzegorz. Inepisodes produced in 2003, Grzegorz is an secondary, definitely negative characterand represents a serious threat to the heteronormative social structure. Twoyears later, in 2005, Grzegorz appears in "M jak miłość" again, this time equipped with positive features: generosity, unselfishness, patience, sensitivity. He implements the “gay best friend” stereotype – is a friend of one of the female protagonists, also becomes a victim of a homophobic attack. However, same like the negative image of homosexual men, the positive image constructed in opposition to it is a sign of a social problem.In the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, affirmative images of homosexual men began to appear in both Polish cinema and drama series. Several factors contributed to this, including the “influence of the West” after Poland had joined the European Union. Driven by socio-political changes, the improvement of gay men’s media image can be observed on the example of the male character of the Polish soap opera M jak miłość (L for Love) – Grzegorz. In episodes produced in 2003, Grzegorz is an secondary, definitely negative character and represents a serious threat to the heteronormative social structure. Two years later, in 2005, Grzegorz appears in M jak miłość again, this time equipped with positive features: generosity, unselfishness, patience, sensitivity. He implements the “gay best friend” stereotype – is a friend of one of the female protagonists, also becomes a victim of a homophobic attack. However, same like the negative image of homosexual men, the positive image constructed in opposition to it is a sign of a social problem.

Pozdrowienia z Krakowa. "Belle Epoque" kontra "Tabu".

Author(s): Monika Rawska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Two series premiered in 2017: British-American "Taboo" and Polish "Belle Epoque". The year is not the only similarity – based on the statements by Edward Miszczak, head of programming of the TVN channel, resemblance was sought and even intended. Similitude in the main character’s image as well as the starting point of the story lines proved to be misleading. A closer look at both shows reveals that the only feature that they have in common is their rootedness in popular (and vernacular) cultural traditions: in "Taboo" intentional and visible references to political fiction, film noir aesthetics, graphic novel and heist movie; in "Belle Epoque" (topical but also stylistic) resemblance to popular gutter circulation novels (dime novels) on Polish territory at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries.

"Artyści" – serial przełomu: tekst w kontekście produkcyjnym.

Author(s): Artur Majer / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article discusses factors determining the production process of the TV series "Artists" by Monika Strzępka and Paweł Demirski. Using production culture methodology, the author of the article demonstrates how the production background can be used to understand the message of the series. The article showsthat numerous factors influence this outcome message, including decisions within the production team, structural and organizational changes in Telewizja Polska, financial limitations, artistic compromises or even political changes in the country.

The exceptionalism of Romanian socialist television and its implications.

Author(s): Alexandru Matei,Annemarie Sorescu Marinković / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

During recent years, the study of European televisions has rediscovered "socialist television", and we have witnessed a rapid rise in scholarly interest in a new field of research: socialist television studies. On the whole, this recent body of literature presents two main new insights as compared to previous studies in the field of the history of Western television: on the one hand, it shows that European television during the Cold War was less heterogeneous than one may imagine when considering the political, economic and ideological split created by the Iron Curtain; on the other hand, it turns to and capitalizes on archives, mostly video, which have been inaccessible to the public. The interactions between Western and socialist mass culture are highlighted mainly with respect to the most popular TV programs: fiction and entertainment.The authors give us an extraordinary landscape of the Romanian socialist television. Unique in the Eastern part of Europe is the period of the early 1990s. Upon the fall of the communist regime, after almost 15 years of freezing, TVR found itself unable to move forward.

"Na melinę" – zapomniane dzieło Stanisława Różewicza.

Author(s): Jarosław Grzechowiak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The film by Stanisław Różewicz "On the Hideout" (original title: "Na melinę") was included in the series of television films Day One, Last Day (original title: "Dzień ostatni, dzień pierwszy", 1965). For many reasons, however, it was detained by censorship, although it represented high artistic values. The article is an attempt to examine both the content of the film itself and its literary prototype, as well as the answer to the question why it has not been broadcast for over 15 years.

Od "Twarzą w twarz" do "Kontraktu", czyli recepcja polskiej twórczości telewizyjnej Krzysztofa Zanussiego z okresu PRL.

Author(s): Marta Kasprzak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Above all, Krzysztof Zanussi is known to Polish viewers as the author of popular cinema films such as The Structure of Crystal (1969), The Illumination (1972) and Camouflage (1976). However, it should be remembered that the director hasrepeatedly cooperated with television – both domestic and foreign. Nowadays, television films that fores hadowed the movement called cinema of moral concern, produced in Poland at the time of the Polish People’s Republic, are poorly present within film discourse. The aim of this article is to recreate (and compare witheach other) the former and contemporary reception of these films, discussed atdifferent intervals in popular or professional periodicals and, what is an increasingly frequent phenomenon, referenced in the Krzysztof Zanussi’s monographs.

Bioethical strategies in the context of bioart.

Author(s): Kamil Gibas / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper discusses topics such as bioart, in the perspective of a cultural phenomenon, present in contemporary Polish and world art. The space of contemporary art, which as a material of expression uses specialist knowledge in the field of bioengineering and tissue culture along with living material, has been a challenge for artists and analysts of art, culture, science and ethics for years. The activity of Eduardo Kac is recalled as well as the Polish bioartist, Karolina Żyniewicz. In her projects, the artist collaborates with scientists, building an interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge and experiences. These deliberations are supplemented with literature on bioethics: positions, opinions and other regulatory documents (The Committee for Bioethics PAS, the Council of Europe, CIOMS, UNESCO) in the context of non-medical and artistic activities. The paper is an attempt to find answers to questions about the way in which new bioethical regulations should be updated and formulated. What bioethical strategies should be taken in this historical moment of our time, where an artwork is both artistic and also strictly scientific?

Becoming liminal – existence in anti-structure.

Author(s): Karolina Żyniewicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper is based both on my empirical experience, related to the implementation of artistic projects in biological laboratories, and on theoretical consideration. It focuses on the cultural and biological meaning of liminality. First, I introduce the idea of liminality derived from anthropology, and more precisely from the theory of the trigeminal structure of ritual as formulated by Arnold van Gennep and developed by Victor Turner. Then, to those anthropological theories pertaining to culture I add the voice of Susan Merill Squier, who draws attention to the fact that technological changes around our corporeality should affect the expansion of liminality and its biological significance. Finally, I refer to her concept of the existence of liminal beings − non-human agents living in the area of the in-between, between any current form of embodiment and a future one. In Squier’s opinion in being humans we become liminal while coexistence with liminal beings can help us to pass this important bio cultural ritual. I would like to post the question: what does this coexistence look like? Can bio art create an opportunity for this coexistence?

Biometric trails of nonhuman environments. Medical imaging of plants’ bodies in bio-artistic projects.

Author(s): Ewelina Twardoch-Raś / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of the article is to introduce the problem of plants’ representations in the contemporary artistic projects based on medical imaging. The author analyses the problem in the perspective of posthumanistic philosophy, especially in reference to the theories of animal studies (Wolfe, Bakoff, Waldau). She also introduces the concept of Michael Marder, who builds his argument around the question of whether people are the only ones who have political, social and ethical rights. The second part of the article concerns strategies and method of plants’ bodies parametrization used in the selected artistic project. The author presents a few of them to show how artists investigate the problem of identity, autonomy and agency of non-human beings, with special regard to plants. The projects are analyzed in reference to various theories of connections between human and non-human beings, as well as to biopolitics’ strategies.

The interactive context of discovering the category of corporeality in a phenomenological approach.

Author(s): Alicja Długołęcka / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article presents different ways of dealing with the subject of the body and corporeality in the humanities, which can form the epistemiological and axiological basis in a reflection on the psycho - and physiotherapeutic relationship with patients, and confronts them with the results of two qualitative studies based on the grounded theory concerning exploration by women of their own body and experiencing their own corporeality, intimacy and touch in medical relations. The author shows that phenomenological philosophy, taking into account the concepts of “carnal self” and “presence of the embodied” that human knowledge always has a carnal character, is the most adequate for use in analyses regarding therapeutic interactions related to the body. Analysis of qualitative research on the process of realising your own corporeality in the cognitive-emotional dimension in the relationship with oneself and in the therapeutic relationship fully confirms the legitimacy of applying the grounded theory method in the study of phenomena regarding carnality and such values ​​as gratitude, mindfulness, care, efficiency and autonomy emerge.

Revelations of science: discussing images of prenatal development by Ernst Haeckel and Lennart Nilsson.

Author(s): Matylda Szewczyk / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper discusses images of prenatal development created by Ernst Haeckel and Lennart Nilsson. Despite the obvious differences between a 19th-century biologist and philosopher of nature and a 20th-century photographer, substantial similarities exist in the way their respective narrations situate embryos and fetuses within the cultural realm. The paper traces the processes of creating the representations of stages of embryogenesis and the controversies surrounding them, analyzes the discursive frame within which the images are produced and function, and discusses their media specificity. It also examines the metaphysical ambitions surrounding the process of producing embryo- and fetal identities and the relation of these identities to the important cultural characteristics of their historical epochs.

Polskie, czyli jakie? Kino polskie w oczach odbiorcy brytyjskiego (na wybranych przykładach z lat 2008-2018).

Author(s): Barbara Giza / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Polish – meaning what exactly? Polish cinema through the eyes of British audiences (based on selected films made between 2008 and 2018). The article aims to show how contemporary Polish cinema has been received in “Sight&Sound” magazine post 2004, after Poland joined the EU. The author attempts to answer the following questions: has the British audience changed their perception of Polish cinema? Have the traits associated with the Polish Film School – the horrible experience of war, love of freedom, Polish romanticism focused on the individual, the truth (of the social kind, and free from constraining patterns), distinctive form, allusiveness and attachment to national symbols – been transformed in any way, and whether this has been reflected in articles published in “Sight&Sound”. The conclusion seems clear: there is little difference in how British audiences perceive contemporary Polish cinema, as they still heavily associate it with the subject matter and the directors of the Polish Film School (Wajda, Kawalerowicz).

Śnieżna depresja i norweskie podróże do kresu ironii. Reinterpretacje poetyki kina drogi w filmie Białe szaleństwo Rune Denstada Langlo oraz w literackiej twórczości Erlenda Loe.

Author(s): Jakub Sebastian Konefał / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Snowy depression and Norwegian trips to the end of irony. Reinterpretations of the road movie’s conventions in Rune Denstad Langlo’s Nord and literary works of Erlend Loe Contemporary Norwegian cinema uses the conventions of the road movie to deconstruct the narrative structures of travel stories and deploys them as a means of social critique. Such a strategy may also demystify the involvement of national discourses in the so called “tourist view”. The article analyzes the cinematic adaptation of Erlend Loe’s screenplay called Nord (2009). The movie was advertised in Poland as an “antidepressant comedy from the polar circle”. However, this interpretation of the plot and aesthetics of the film tries to prove the opposite thesis, presenting some arguments proving that the feature structure of Rune Denstad Langlo’s film provides the basis for perceiveing it as a cultural text, which plays with the post-ironic perspective and selected pastiche formulas to reinterpret (and sometimes even deconstruct) the conventions of the road cinema in order to undertake the phantasmatic reflections on the problem of depression and postmodern fears in aconsumer society.

Sztuka performansu po The Artist Is Present. Kontynuacja działań Mariny Abramović w twórczości jej uczniów

Author(s): Weronika Metlenga / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The Art of performance after The Artist Is Present. The continuation of Marina Abramović’s actions in her followers’ workPerformance art, recognized in the second half of the 20th century as niche and alternative, is currently perceived as one of the most popular genres of contemporary art. The difference that has raised due to the development of performance art is evident not only in the way a performance is created, but mainly in changing the perception of the work of art. The opening of the Marina Abramović Institute and the performance The Artist Is Present, became the main turning point showing this change. The aim of this article is to present how the art of Marina Abramović, which she consistently created for more than four decades, evolves in the works of the new generations of performers. Qualitative research based on film, interviews, exhibitions and publications related to the subject is the base for these considerations.

Kino podzielone. Recenzja książki Andrzeja Gwoździa pt. "Kino na biegunach". Filmy niemieckie i ich historie 1949-1991.

Author(s): Patrycja Włodek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Резюмета на изследвания в областта на църковното изкуство и дизайн

Author(s): Evgeny Gamov,Sergei Tonkovid / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article presents the results of the study of synergy in design, geometry of the Andrei Rublev icon, reverse perspective in wall painting and the Golden section in Church art. Developed methods that can be used in modern design and Church art.