American Film- MA Seminar 3

Master's seminars

The seminar will be concerned with historical, generic and thematic approaches to the American film.

The seminar will be concerned with historical, generic and thematic approaches to the American film. It will focus, among others, on generic formulas in different periods and on the evolution of such formulas. This evolution entails changes in the ways of constructing imagery and, subsequently, leads to modifications of ideological senses. Film will be seen as a medium that involves a variety of esthetic and cultural contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the connections between literature and film.

1) John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, eds., The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford UP 1998.2) Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Rafał Syska, eds., Historia kina. Kino nieme, Universitas 2010.3) Richard Maltby, Hollywood Cinema, Blackwell 2003.4) R.L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Geiger, Film Analysis. A Norton Reader, Norton 2005.5) Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, Routledge 1992.

Knowledge

The graduate will be able to:

K_W04 Characterize on an advanced level the principles of research design in literary and cultural studies with a special focus on the application of methods and tools in formulating research problems in the field of American literature and culture,

K_W05 Identify the notions and principles pertinent to intellectual property and copyright.

K_W06 Characterise economic, legal and other factors relevant for various kinds of professional activities related to the study programme.

Abilities

The graduate is able to:

K_U01 Apply advanced terminology and notions pertinent to the discipline of literary and cultural studies,

K_U02 Apply advanced research methodology within literary and cultural studies to analyze American literature and culture, respecting ethical norms and copyright law,

K_U03 Apply knowledge obtained during the course of studies to account for and solve a problem, thereby completing a research task in the field of American studies using the tools from literary studies and cultural studies,

K_U04 Analyze linguistic, literary, and cultural phenomena and draw generalizations on their basis in the context of societal, historical, and economic factors on an advanced level,

K_U06 Find information in various sources and critically assess its usefulness for research related to the topic of the MA project in the field of American studies,

K_U07 Use modern technology in the process of learning and communicating with academic teachers, colleagues, representatives of various institutions, and fellow participants in classes and projects, applying various channels and techniques of communication,

K_U11 Design one’s own path of development.

Social competencies

The graduate is ready to:

K_K02 Apply knowledge and skills obtained during the course of studies to undertake lifelong learning, as well as personal and professional development,

Attendance and the progress in the preparation of the M.A. thesis.