Conference Programme
Fast, Slow & Reverse. Faces of Contemporary Film Narration:
Around Mainstream Cinema
Gdańsk, 24th–25th May 2017
All lectures will take place at:
Faculty of Languages of the University of Gdańsk
(Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego),
address: Wita Stwosza St. 55, Gdańsk
24th May (Wednesday)
Registration: from 9:00 AM at the reception situated near room 1.47 (ground floor)
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Conference opening – Room 1.43 (9:30-9.45) |
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Opening Session – Room 1.43 The Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Noël Carroll: Narrative, Emotion, and Movies: A Summary and Update (9.45–11:00) |
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| 11:00-11:15 coffee break (entrance hall) | |||
| 11:15-12:45
session I Room 1.47 |
· 11:15-11:35 – Mirosław Przylipiak, University of Gdańsk: The Notion of Mainstream Film in Contemporary Cinema
· 11:35-11.55 – Elżbieta Durys, University of Łódź: Film Narration and Contemporary Polish Historical Cinema: The Case of Manhunt · 11:55-12.15 – Matthias Brütsch, University of Zurich: Loop Films: Experiments with Time Between the Poles of Classical and Complex Narration · 12:15-12:45 – Discussion |
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| 12:45-13:00 coffee break (entrance hall) | |||
| 13:00 – 14:40
session II Room 1.47 |
· 13:00-13:20 – Steven Willemsen, University of Groningen: Impossible Puzzle Films – between Art Cinema and (Post-) Classical Narration
· 13.20-13.40 – Radomír D. Kokeš, Masaryk University: Do It again, again… and again: “Loop Narrative” as a Tactic of Popular Storytelling · 13:40-14.00 – Małgorzata Jakubowska, University of Łódź: Slow or Fast Film Narration? Reading Gilles Deleuze’s Theory Today · 14.00-14.30 – Discussion |
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| 14:30-16:00 lunch break | |||
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16:00-17:50 session III Moderator: Paweł Biliński
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Room 1.47 · 16.00-16.20 – Jakub Konefał, University of Gdańsk: The Figures of Film Narration in Contemporary Vampire Movies from Sweden · 16.20-16.40 – Piotr Wajda, University of Gdańsk: From The Evil Dead to Dead Snow. How Scandinavian Horror Filmmakers Follow American Genre Films · 16.40-17.00 – Grzegorz Fortuna, University of Gdańsk, Narrative Strategies in Contemporary American Horror Movies · 17.00-17.20 – Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Jagiellonian University: The nuclear Technology Debate Returns. Narrations about Nuclear Power in Post-Fukushima, Mainstream Japanese Films · 17.20-17.50 – Discussion
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Sala 1.48 · 16:00 – 16:20 – Paweł Sitkiewicz, Uniwersytet Gdański: Film animowany, a główny nurt współczesnego kina · 16.20-16.40 – Paulina Pohl, Uniwersytet Gdański, Jak w pudełeczku. Filmowe światy Wesa Andersona · 16.40-17.00 – Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz, Uniwersytet Gdański: W poszukiwaniu głównego nurtu w polskim kinie · 17.00-17.20 –Piotr Kurpiewski, Uniwersytet Gdański: Tradycjonalista – wizjoner– artysta. Wojciech Smarzowski jako twórca audiowizualnych narracji historycznych · 17.20-17.50 – Dyskusja |
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| 17:50-18:10 coffee break (entrance hall) | |||
| 18:10 – 19:40
Session IV Room 1.47 Moderator: Marta Maciejewska |
· 18.10-18.30 – Justyna Bucknall-Hołyńska, University of Szczecin; Małgorzata Major, University of Gdańsk: Fitting the Story in: Miniseries as a Bridge between Cinema and Television
· 18.30-18.50 – Sonia Front, University of Silesia: Imagine the Impossibilities – Time Complexity in Fringe · 18.50 – 19.10 – Agnieszka Smoręda, University of Łódź: Innovative Narration in Mythalone Episodes of the TV Series Fringe · 19.10-19.40 – Discussion |
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21:00 Opening banquet
25th May (Thursday)
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Special Lecture – Room 1.43 Prof. Warren Buckland: Revisiting Videogame Logic: Impossible Storyworlds in the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (9:45-11:00) |
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| 11:00-11:15 coffee break (entrance hall) | ||
| 11.15-12:45
Session I Room 1.47 Moderator: Elżbieta Durys |
· 11.15-11.35 – Phillip Drummond, New York University in London: The Cinematic Hermeneutics of Crime Fiction: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Croupier, and Following
· 11.35-11.55 – Kamila Żyto, University of Łódź: Reversing Reversed. Film Noir Narration in Cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen · 11.55-12.15 – Katarína Mišíková, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava: Red is the New Black Storytelling and Style in Political Thrillers Candidate (2013) and The Red Captain (2016) · 12.15-12.45 – Discussion |
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| 12:45-13:00 coffee break (entrance hall) | ||
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Special Lecture – Room 1.43 Thomas Elsaesser: Transparency, Surface, Touch: Narrative—Classical Post-classical and Beyond (13:00-14:15) |
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| 14:15-15:45 lunch break | ||
| 15:45-17:15
Session II Room 1.47 Moderator: Grzegorz Fortuna |
· 15.45-16.05 – Rafał Syska, Jagiellonian University: Digital Split (Personality) Screen
· 16.05-16.25 – Marta Maciejewska, University of Gdańsk: Between Poetry and Visual Joke: Narration of Jan Švankmajer’s Feature Films · 16.25-16.45 – Ekaterina Gurina, Saint Thikhon Orthodox University: Anna Karenina—Classics vs. Avant-garde · 16.45-17.15 – Discussion |
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| 17:15-17:30 coffee break (entrance hall) | ||
| 17:30 – 19:00
Session III Room 1.47 Moderator: Mirosław Przylipiak |
· 17.30-17.50 – Carlo Comanducci: Populist Drift: “Fast Cinema” and the Ideology of Popular Culture
· 17.50-18.10 – Martina Olivero, Sorbona: Tragic’s Narrative Solutions in 20th and 21st Century American Mainstream Cinema. Eastwood–Penn–Grey · 18.10-18.30 – Magdalena Brodziak, Adam Mickiewicz University: American Byzantines. New York, Detroit and Los Angeles in a Reflection of Hollywood Cinema · 18.30-19.00 Discussion |
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18:30 Screening, DKF UG Miłość Blondynki, Room 1.43 – Butterfly Kisses, 2016, dir. Rafał Kapeliński, 89 min.
Fast, Slow & Reverse 