CMAa06 Introduction to Film Theories

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2025
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
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
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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. Film Realism and Neorealism
  • 4. Film Semiotics and Post-Semiotics
  • 5. Cognitivism
  • 6. Auteur Theory
  • 9. Theory of Field vs. Art Worlds
  • 10. Production Studies
  • 11. Representation
Výukové metody
The lectures include discussion over obligatory reading, as well as a collective analysis of textual fragments and film clips.
Metody hodnocení
Brief tests checking the knowledge of seminar reading and understanding of the lecture – 20 points; final written test – 50 points; an outline of a research project – 30 points. To pass the exam, the student has to reach the score of 60% in each of the three categories (i.e., the minimum of 12, 30, and 18 points in the respective tests). Reaching the minimum of 18 points in tests written during the semester at the lectures is a prerequisite for writing both the final exam and the research project.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2023, jaro 2024.