The Department of Film Studies, Audiovisual Arts, and Cultural Anthropology focuses on 19th- and 20th-century culture, both Polish and global, in the context of audiovisual arts and cultural anthropology. The Department comprises two research teams, which form the Cultural Anthropology and Audiovisual Arts Section and the Film Studies Section. The editorial offices of the academic journals Kwartalnik Filmowy and Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa are part of its structure. The Department also conducts extensive research and conference activities.
The Department is headed by Karolina Kosińska, PhD.
phone: (22) 50 48 234
- Film Studies Section, Editorial Office of “Kwartalnik Filmowy” (“Film Quarterly”)
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The Section conducts research on how cinema, film and broadly understood audiovisuality functions in the context of contemporary culture, social life, contemporary and historical phenomena in the audiovisual arts. This research concerns both the history and theory of cinema, as well as the aesthetics of film, its language and narrative forms, and the specificity of the medium itself. The interests of the members of the Section focus on such diverse phenomena as: the social (and political) dimension of cinema and film, the specificity of national cinemas, avant-garde movements and aesthetic transgressions, genre and its historical transformations, religious cinema and the question of transcendence and the sacred in film, the relationship between cinema and film and popular culture in its various manifestations; these interests also concern the social, communications, and cultural conditions of television and audiovisual media.
The team: Karolina Kosińska, PhD (head of the Section, editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy), Ewa Fiuk, PhD (Kraków), Beata Kosińska-Krippner, PhD, Grzegorz Nadgrodkiewicz, PhD (managing editor), Klaudia Rachubińska, MA
Kwartalnik Filmowy [Film Quarterly] is a quarterly academic journal published by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk – ISPAN). It is one of the most highly valued Polish periodicals concerning film and culture. The scope of its interest embraces history and theory of film, audiovisual arts and media. Its aim is to present the most important phenomena and trends in contemporary film and media studies and also to broaden the knowledge about interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects of film art with emphasis on Polish context. The journal is addressed to academics, students of the humanities, especially in film studies, and cinephiles. Usually it is published in the form of monographic volumes devoted to a particular problem or eminent filmmakers. We accept articles in Polish and English. The articles are peer reviewed in a double-blinded mode. We publish four volumes a year – both in paper and electronic version. According to the List of Scored Journals of The Ministry of Education and Science of Poland publication in Kwartalnik Filmowy earns 100 points.
All articles are published in open access under the CC BY 4.0 licence. In issues from 105-106 (2019) to 119 (2022) all articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
The original (reference) version of the journal is the printed one (ISSN: 0452-9502).
- Cultural Anthropology and Audiovisual Arts Section, Editorial Office of “Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa” (“Contexts: Polish Folk Art”)
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The general area of research of the Section includes, among others: theory and history of culture, contemporary cultural phenomena, issues of cultural anthropology and ethnography, as well as anthropologically oriented research on art, and finally research on the Section’s archive and the quarterly journal Konteksty. The Section’s research interests focus on such phenomena as: anthropology of symbolic imagination (myth, sign, symbol, meaning, interpretation), anthropology of contemporary culture (anthropology of the city), visual anthropology (research on contemporary visual culture, practical uses of visuality, anthropology of photography and film), anthropology between science and art (e.g. the relationship between anthropology and surrealism, anthropological themes in literature, literary strategies in scientific writing), and theatre anthropology (the so-called ‘theatre infected with anthropology’). The Section’s research is conducted in the spirit of interdisciplinarity in contemporary humanities and focuses on the interpretation of cultural and artistic phenomena.
The team: Tomasz Szerszeń, PhD (head of the Section, editor-in-chief of Konteksty), Danuta Benedyktowicz, MA (managing editor), Justyna Chmielewska, MA, Antoni Michnik, PhD, Aleksandra Loranc, MA (Kraków)
Konteksty have been published continuously since 1947, as a quarterly journal anchored at the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It has an interdisciplinary character, covering a range of issues between folklore and avant-garde art, between aesthetics and anthropology and knowledge of literature, theater, art, popular and mass culture. The journal is addressed to researchers, students and a wide range of readers interested in contemporary humanities. Despite its high intellectual level, it is accessible to a wide range of readers who want to deepen their knowledge related to culture and the mechanisms of its functioning – we want to introduce the most outstanding trends in modern humanities, trace images that show the diversity of modern culture, show and bring closer the sources and traditions of phenomena that are well-known and troubling modern communities.
Publication in Konteksty earns 100 points.
The original (reference) version of the journal is the printed one (ISSN: 1230–6142).
Since 2023 selected texts from Konteksty are available in open access (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International; since 2025 CC-BY 4.0 International).
We invite Authors and Readers to visit our journal’s website: www.konteksty.pl and to contact us at konteksty@ispan.pl
