FAV058 The Methods of New Film History

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 12
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar is conceived as a practice in critical reading of scholarly texts, that constitute a methodological basis of contemporary film and media historiography. Assessment: a concrete research project. The texts that will be analyzed: Thomas Elsaesser: The New Film History. Sight and Sound 35, 1986, no. 4, pp. 246-252; Charles Musser: The Nickelodeon Era Begins: Establishing the Framework for Hollywood's Mode of Representation. In: Thomas Elsaesser & Adam Barker (eds.): Early Cinema. Space - Frame - Narrative. London: British Film Institute 1992, pp. 256-273; Tom Gunning: An Aesthetics of Astonishment. Early Cinema and the (In)credulous Spectator. Art & Text 1989, no. 34, pp. 31-45; André Gaudreault: Showing and Telling. Image and World in Early Cinema. In: Thomas Elsaesser & Adam Barker (eds.): Early Cinema. Space - Frame - Narrative. London: British Film Institute 1992, pp. 274-281; Miriam Hansen: Early Cinema, Late Cinema. Permutation of the Public Sphere. Screen 34, 1993, no. 3, pp. 197-210; Thomas Elsaesser: Medienwechsel. Konvergenz oder Ausdifferenzierung der Leitmedien? In: T. Elsaesser: Filmgeschichte und frühes Kino. Archäologie eines Medienwandels. München: edition text + kritik 2002, pp. 278-317; Siegfried Zielinski: Towards an Archeology of the Audiovisual. In: Jürgen E. Müller (ed.): Towards a Pragmatics of the Audiovisual. Theory and History. Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1994, pp. 181-196; Garncarz, Joseph: Vom Varieté zum Kino. Ein Plädoyer für ein erweitertes Konzept der Intermedialität. In: Jörg Helbig (ed.): Intermedialität. Theorie und Praxis eines interdisziplinären Forschungsgebiets. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 1998, pp. 244-256; Uricchio, William: Cinema as Detour? Towards a Reconsideration of Moving Image Technology in the Late 19th Century. In: Knut Hickethier - Eggo Müller - Rainer Rother (eds.): Der Film in der Geschichte. Berlin 1997, pp. 19-25.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zakoncení: praktické resení samostatného výzkumného úkolu.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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