Katarzyna Marciniak

Bruce Bennett

Introduction: teaching transnational cinema: politics and pedagogy / Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett -- Seeing "the world" through film. Ignorance and inequality: teaching with transnational cinema / Bruce Bennett -- A pedagogy of humility: teaching European films about immigration / Alex Lykidis -- Understanding context, resisting hermeneutics: ways of seeing transnational relations / Matthew Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessels -- Teaching "the world" through film / Ruth Doughty and Deborah Shaw -- Film-philosophy and the transnational gaze / David Martin-Jones -- Transnational encounters. Transnational lesbian cinema in the women's and gender studies classroom: beyond neoliberal imaginaries of desire? / Rachel Lewis -- Altered states for a critical cosmopolitanism / Anita Wen-shin Chang -- Facilitating student engagement: a performative model of transnational film pedagogy / Mette Hjort -- Pedagogy and personal transformation through transnational film / Laurence Raw -- The pedagogy of the piratical / Bhaskar Sarkar -- "Grateful to be an American": the challenges of teaching transnational documentaries / Áine O'Healy -- Transnational aporias. A feminist politics and ethics of refusal: teaching transnational cinema in the feminist studies classroom / Neda Atanasoski -- Disempowering knowledge: how to teach not to help / Aga Skrodzka -- Provocative pedagogy: the Middle East / Terri Ginsberg and Tania Kamal-Eldin -- The disappearing classroom: streaming foreigners and a politics of invisibility / Katarzyna Marciniak -- Coda: "teaching films as things to think with": a conversation with Rey Chow / Bruce Bennett and Katarzyna Marciniak

Politics and Pedagogy

Teaching Transnational Cinema

This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world. In their exploration of a wide range of films from different national and regional contexts, contributors reflect on the practical and pedagogical challenges of teaching about immigrant identities, transnational encounters, foreignness, cosmopolitanism and citizenship, terrorism, border politics, legality and race. Probing the value of cinema in interdisciplinary academic study and the changing strategies and philosophies of teaching in the university, this volume positions itself at the cutting edge of transnational film studies.

bohaterowie ponad czasem : opowieści o bogach i herosach, konteksty kulturowe, historia i współczesność

Mitologia grecka i rzymska

Aga Skrodzka

Xiaoning Lu

Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. In The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, contributors trace the legacies of communist ideology in visual culture, from buildings and monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals and suggesting that it has visually shaped the modern world in undeniable and complex ways. Together, contributors answer curcial questions like: What can be salvaged and reused from past communist experiments? How has communism impacted the cultures of late capitalism? And how have histories of communism left behind visual traces of potential utopias? An interdisciplinary look at the cultural currency of communism today, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures demonstrates the value of revisiting the practices of the past to form a better vision of the future.

Katarzyna Marciniak

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