About the course:
You certainly know this infuriating question that people ask sometime: “have you seen this or that film?” And then they look surprised or shocked at you. Well, it is impossible to follow the whole cinematic production! It is impossible to know all the films, is it? Yet, there are ways to be prepared for these kinds of conversation and to know why some films we know, some directors we follows closely, some genres we know upside down and the other not so much.
During the Course of the World’s Cinema History we look at the history of cinema from the selective point of view, of course. We cannot see everything. Yet, we discuss the ways in which some films become masterpieces and why indeed everybody should know them. Because just like in history of literature, in history of cinema some films, some directors, some camera operators change the history itself. Darek Jarman, the English film director, said once “Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!” Of course, he would. Because as Shakespeare is all about fantastic storytelling in a captivating way, the beauty of language, the setting of scenes, the choice of glancing at thing the best films follow the same rules to keep us interested. During course of History of the World's Cinema we discuss the masterpieces of cinematic history and we learn why everybody have to see them and why we sometimes have the right to ask: haven’t you seen it? And be truly stunned if not. Come to study Film and Media Production management course and let’s together discuss the best of the best films ever. |
Urszula (Ula) Chowaniec, Ph.D. is Professor (dr hab.) at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow Academy in Poland and the Affiliate Fellow at University College London. On the daily basis, she lives in Stockholm.
She is an author of a monograph Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and W poszukiwaniu Kobiety: O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej (In Search for a Woman: Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka, Kraków 2007). She also edited and contributed to Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory (2012), Mapping Experience on Polish and Russian Women’s Writing (2010), Masquerade and Femininity. Essays on Polish and Russian Women Writers (2008). She teaches among other courses: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, Film Literary Adaptation, Contemporary Literature. Contemporary Literature. |