CMAa06 Introduction to Film Theories

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2023
Rozsah
2/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 14:00–15:40 C34
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course will analyse significant discourses on cinema as they formed during the decades and across various cultural and national areas. The students will be introduced to wide spectrum of contemporary arguments and will learn to interpret period texts in a wider cultural, social and political context.
Výstupy z učení
After finishing this course, students will be able to formulate the main changes in the theoretical, critical and methodological reflection of cinema, as well as understand them in the relevant historical context. The knowledge provided by the lectures will give the students the capacity to understand how the history of discourses on cinema can be analysed. Besides, they will acquire the competence for understanding the contemporary research tendencies in a wider perspective and recognize continuities, as well as paradigmatic changes.
Osnova
  • 1. Cinema and Modernity
  • 2. Soviet avant-garde, Soviet montage, and Dziga Vertov
  • 3. Socialist Realism
  • 4. Film Semiotics
  • 5. Film Realism and Neorealism
  • 6. Auteur Theory
  • 7. Post-Semiotics
  • 8. Modes of Documentary Films
  • 9. Sociological Research on Cinema Audiences
  • 10. Production Studies
  • 11. Accented cinema
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Dziga Vertov: WE: Variant of a Manifesto; On the Significance of Newsreel; kinopravda; The Birth of Kino-Eye; From Kino-Eye t Radio-Eye. In: Annette Michelson (ed.), Kino-Eye. The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of C
    doporučená literatura
  • Janet Staiger, Authorship Approaches. In: David A. Gerstener – Janet Staiger (eds.), Authorship and Film: Trafficking with Hollywood. Routledge, 2003
  • Malcolm Turvey: The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s. MIT Press, 2011
  • Francesco Casetti: Theories of Cinema, 1945-1995. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999
  • Melodrama and modernity : early sensational cinema and its contexts. Edited by Ben Singer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, xiv, 363. ISBN 0231113293. info
  • ABEL, Richard. French cinema : the first wave, 1915-1929. 1st Princeton pbk. print. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987, xxi, 672. ISBN 0691008132. info
Výukové metody
The lectures include discussion over obligatory reading, as well as a collective analysis of textual fragments and film clips.
Metody hodnocení
Oral presentation at the lectures + activity in discussions on assigned reading and movies 30% Written essay + its presentation at the lecture 30% Oral exam 40%
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
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