A Myth about a Flush of Emotions The essay’s main subject is Zofia Dąbrowska’s animated etude The Sea. The text indicates connections between a woman and a water element that are deeply rooted in culture. It mentions images of the relation between those two themes in Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s poetry. The author of the essay analyses the poetics of the animation and looks for the features which create the etude’s universal character.
This article presents the influence of emotions on the teaching and learning process, with particular emphasis on pronunciation classes at university level. The first chapters describe the terminological intricacies within emotions, feelings, moods etc., and then the positive and negative influence of emotions on the didactic process. The next part presents attempts to use emotions that support the learning process and to cool down difficult emotions that disorganise work in classes and negatively influence the learning process. A special case is phonetic education, which arouses many more emotions than in other classes. At the end, there is a reasonable proposal of exercises called etudes, which positively influence unwanted emotions and support emotions beneficial for the didactic process.
In his etude Mother Earth Piotr Złotorowicz forms the narrative around the mythical hero. The main character Maciek gains the entirety of mythical fulfi llment due to being shaped by (1) space of the execution of the film narration’s subject (indicated by the opposition of home area and garden area), (2) space around him (indicated by sublimed functioning of touch), (3) inability to identify with his own community (indicated by rejecting the butchery tradition of his family), (4) inability to act different than how it was shown (indicated by numerous similarities to Jesus Christ).
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Mythical hero in Piotr Złotorowicz’s Mother Earth In his etude Mother Earth Piotr Złotorowicz forms the narrative around the mythical hero. The main character Maciek gains the entirety of mythical fulfi llment due to being shaped by (1) space of the execution of the film narration’s subject (indicated by the opposition of home area and garden area), (2) space around him (indicated by sublimed functioning of touch), (3) inability to identify with his own community (indicated by rejecting the butchery tradition of his family), (4) inability to act different than how it was shown (indicated by numerous similarities to Jesus Christ).
In the article, the author presents the nation as an ethnic, cultural as well as political group. Also, the author’s experience of workshops for adolescents conducted at the University of Gdansk is described. The starting point for the meetings was the etude The Birth of a Nation (Pol. Narodziny narodu) by Kamil Polak, a minimalistic animation about the rise and the fall of a certain nation. The proposed model of the etude starts with a universal story based on the impersonal metaphor of the circle and it continues to the students’ “here and now”, revealing the axiological dilemmas of the young recipients of culture. Not only the views of students regarding the issue of nationality are presented in the article, but also it reveals how this knowledge is constructed.
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W artykule autorka prowadzi rozważania dotyczące narodu jako kategorii etnicznej, kulturowej i politycznej oraz opisuje swoje doświadczenia z warsztatów z młodzieżą prowadzonych na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Punktem wyjścia tych spotkań była etiuda Kamila Polaka Narodziny narodu, minimalistyczna animacja opowiadająca o narodzinach i upadku pewnego narodu. Zaproponowany modus lektury, wychodząc od uniwersalnej opowieści opartej na bezosobowej metaforze koła, przechodzi do uczniowskiego „tu i teraz”, ujawniając aksjologiczne dylematy młodego odbiorcy kultury. W artykule nie tylko zreferowano poglądy uczniów dotyczące przynależności narodowej, ale przede wszystkim ujawniono, w jaki sposób ta wiedza jest przez nich konstruowana.
Marek Hendrykowski’s essay presents the importance of Janusz Morgenstern’s early short film Radishes made after Stalin’s death, in 1954 as a student work produced by Film School in Łódź. The main character, old worker Gruliński loses his clear hopes and human illusions. The pesimistic conclusion is closed further by the simultaneous description of the hero’s social image within a discourse of origins and the sacred which evacuates analysis of class conflict and sociological approach in the narrative of an “ordinary good man” brutally disturbed in his desires and works by the irruption and power of an omnipotent destructive stalinist “red tape” bureaucracy. The poetics of Radishes is deeply influenced by the style of an Italian neorealism, first of all by its famous masterpiece, Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. (1952).
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Janusz Morgenstern’s „Radishes” Marek Hendrykowski’s essay presents the importance of Janusz Morgenstern’s early short film Radishes made after Stalin’s death, in 1954 as a student work produced by Film School in Łódź. The main character, old worker Gruliński loses his clear hopes and human illusions. The pesimistic conclusion is closed further by the simultaneous description of the hero’s social image within a discourse of origins and the sacred which evacuates analysis of class conflict and sociological approach in the narrative of an “ordinary good man” brutally disturbed in his desires and works by the irruption and power of an omnipotent destructive stalinist “red tape” bureaucracy. The poetics of Radishes is deeply influenced by the style of an Italian neorealism, first of all by its famous masterpiece, Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. (1952).
Book Review of: Etiudy Chopina w Jego „jednym sposobie” z perspektywy dźwięków węzłowych i figur migotliwych [Chopin's Etudes in His 'Only One Manner' from the perspective of nodal sounds and twinkling figures] by Krzysztof Bilica, Kraków 2022. Krzysztof Bilica's monograph under review, despite being a professional reading, addressed to musicologists, composers, performers, may also be of interest to non-musicians. This is because attention is attracted by the title itself, promising an unobvious approach to a musicological issue. The writing style is also engaging - essayistic, colorful, using metaphors, with a certain dose of humor, simple in its message, despite many erudite digressions. Maintained in scientific rigor, this musical-literary digressive essay is an innovative publication both in its subjective and objective narrative, unusual for musicological dissertations, in its revealing content and multimedia form.
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Recenzja książki Krzysztofa Bilicy Etiudy Chopina w Jego „jednym sposobie” z perspektywy dźwięków węzłowych i figur migotliwych, Kraków 2022. Recenzowana monografia Krzysztofa Bilicy, mimo że jest lekturą fachową, adresowaną do muzykologów, kompozytorów, wykonawców, to może również zainteresować niemuzyków. Uwagę bowiem przyciąga sam tytuł, zapowiadający nieoczywiste podejście do muzykologicznego zagadnienia. Wciągający jest też styl pisarski – eseistyczny, barwny, z użyciem metafor, z pewną dawką humoru, prosty w swym przekazie, mimo wielu erudycyjnych dygresji. Ten utrzymany w naukowych ryzach muzyczno-literacki esej dygresyjny jest publikacją nowatorską zarówno w nietypowej dla muzykologicznych rozpraw subiektywnej i obiektywnej zarazem narracji, w odkrywczej treści oraz multimedialnej formie.
Łódź is often called “the capital of Polish film”. The cultural history of this town from the end of World War Two to the present day is closely connected with the movie industry. Marek Hendrykowski’s study on Łódź as a cinematic city offers the first comprehensive critical guide to the many films, interviews, published writings and individual memoirs of the Film School’s students and professors. This panoramic view presents the process of the historical transformation of cinematic images from Łódź between 1945 and 2013, as well as the profound influence this town had on many filmmakers. It serves as a reference work that will allow readers to navigate the subject’s wide range of examples: from Antoni Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Bossak, Kazimierz Kutz and Andrzej Wajda to Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski, Janusz Kijowski and Polish filmmakers of new generation.
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Cinematic City Łódź through eyes of the Film School. Students and Professors Łódź is often called “the capital of Polish film”. The cultural history of this town from the end of World War Two to the present day is closely connected with the movie industry. Marek Hendrykowski’s study on Łódź as a cinematic city offers the first comprehensive critical guide to the many films, interviews, published writings and individual memoirs of the Film School’s students and professors. This panoramic view presents the process of the historical transformation of cinematic images from Łódź between 1945 and 2013, as well as the profound influence this town had on many filmmakers. It serves as a reference work that will allow readers to navigate the subject’s wide range of examples: from Antoni Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Bossak, Kazimierz Kutz and Andrzej Wajda to Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski, Janusz Kijowski and Polish filmmakers of new generation.
The Dramaturgy of Roman Polański’s Two Men with a Wardrobe Marek Hendrykowski’s case study on Polański’s famous student etude Two Men with a Wardrobe reconstructs this wonderful short movie take-by-take: a must for anyone who cares about cinema as art. The young (24 years old) director, together with a team of talented colleagues (cameraman Maciej Kijowski, actors Jakub Goldberg and Henryk Kluba, director’s assistant Andrzej Kostenko and film music composer and jazzman Krzysztof Komeda), demonstrated a very modern way of thinking about the art of the moving image and about the various possibilities hidden in the simple poetics of screen drama. From its opening scene on the beach to the dramatic and nostalgic ending with a comeback to the sea, the film charts two men’s struggles on the difficult path to becoming independent human beings enjoying their own freedom.
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