Zbigniew Banas
Part-time Instructor
Polish and European Cinema
Email: zbanas@luc.edu
Office: Crown Center 206C
Phone: 773-508-7368
Mobile: 312-304-2217
Research Interests
- Polish and European Cinema
- Hollywood and Independent American Film Productions
Courses Taught
- LITR 200 - European Masterpieces
- Polish Exile Experience
- LITR 204 - European Film
- History of Polish Cinema
- Cinema of Moral Concern
- Cinema of Krszytof Kieslowski
- Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
- Contemporary Poland in Film
- Contemporary Polish Cinema
- New Wave of Czech and Polish Cinema
- LITR 284 - International Film
- Cinema of Roman Polanski
- Women in Polish Cinema
Loyola Service
- Faculty reviewer and judge for the annual Undergraduate Student FORUM, a competition of papers on Central and Eastern Europe
- Polish and Polish American film screenings and discussions for Polish Student Alliance open to the public
Service Outside Loyola
- Master of Ceremonies, opening night of the annual Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles
- Master of Ceremonies, opening night of the annual Polish Film Festival in Chicago
- Jury member of FilmHellenes Greek Film Festival, Chicago
- Press Conference Moderator, 20th Camerimage Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Organizer and moderator of film screenings at DKF Cornelia, a Polish-language film discussion club, Chicago
- JJC American film discussion group
- Film presentation and discussion in Chicago Public Litraries
Conference Presentations
- "Polish and Czechoslovak New Waves in Cinema" University of Texas at Austin, 2014
Education
- Sc. M. Brown University, 1982
- B.S. University of Chicago, 1981