Barbara Szczekala

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Personal information

First name
Barbara
Last name
Szczekala
Institutional affiliation

Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University in Cracov

Narratological interest

My research focuses on narrative forms of contemporary cinema. Main fields of
interests:
- phenomenon of complex, complicated and perplexing film narration (puzzle films, mind-game films, modular narratives, database narratives, network narratives etc.)
- complicated narration patterns in contemporary cinema
- shift in representation systems (form linear narratives to hypertext, rhizome, database)
- narrative games evoking new forms of cinematic reception and spectatorship (how films communicate sense through their complicated narrative structures?)
- cognitive perspective of how complex narrations activate the audiences'
reception
- narrative strategies of representation postmodern problems and experiences (cognitive pessimism, subject in crisis, ontology of digital wolds etc.)
- new forms of cinephilia connected with puzzle films reception and
interpretation: negotiation of film sense among on-line communities

History

Member for
10 years 5 months
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ENN is the European Narratology Network, an association of individual narratologists and narratological institutions. ENN aims to foster the study of narrative representation in literature, film, digital media, etc. across all European languages and cultures.