FAVs014 Film Stories, or Stories about Films? The Contextualization of Films on DVDs (seminar)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 13:20–14:55 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar is related to the lecture Out of Space of Theatre: The Way of Hollywood to Households. On the seminar will be analysed: DVD contents; the way films are contextualized through extra features on DVD; the strategy of vertical diversification; marketing, distribution and reception of movies on DVD. The first part of the seminar will be devoted to seminar reading of crucial texts and to presentation of existing researches. After that, students will present the results of their own researches. Literature: Barbara Klingerová: současný cinefil. Filmové sběratelství v éře po videu. Iluminace 17, č. 3, s. 83-104; Kristin Thompson, Fantasy, Franchises, and Frodo Baggins: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood. The Velvet Light Trap, number 52, fall 2003, s. 45-63; Robert Alan Brookey Robert Westerfelhaus: Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet. Critical Studies in Media Communication 19, 2002, č. 1, s. 21-43; Deborah Parker Mark Parker: Directors and DVD commentary: The specifics of intention. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62, č. 1, 2004; Martin Loiperdinger (ed.): Celluloid Goes Digital. Historical-Critical Editions of Films on DVD and the Internet. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2003; Barbara Klinger: Digressions of the Cinema: Commodification and Reception in Mass Culture. In: James Naremore Patrick Brantlinger: Modernity and mass culture. Bloomington 1991; Barbara Klinger: The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Domestic Film Experience. The Velvet Light Trap, č. 42, Fall 1998, s. 4-19.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelný kurs. Ukončení - zápočet, udělovaný na základě studentem provedeného a na semináři prezentovaného výzkumu. Podmínka udělení zápočtu: 80% účast na seminářích.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004.
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