FAV182 (Socialist) Modernity and Cinema of GDR and Czechoslovakia

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 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
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The students will be able to interprete the relations between cultural politics on one side and film industry on the other side, with a focus on the comparasion of Czechoslovakia and GDR. The students will cultivate their competence to understand and evaluate theoretical arguments and archive materials.
Syllabus
  • 1: distrubition and exhibition in the Eastern Bloc 2. the process of "sovietization" in the cultural sphere 3. interpretation of the terms "modernity" and "socialist modernity" 4. the program of "cultural revolution" in Czechoslovakia and GDR
Literature
    required literature
  • FEINSTEIN, Joshua. The triumph of the ordinary : depictions of daily life in the East German cinema, 1949-1989. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 331 s. ISBN 0807853852. info
  • POIGER, Uta G. Jazz, rock, and rebels : cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, xiii, 333. ISBN 0520211391. info
    not specified
  • John Connelly: Captive University. The sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish higher education, 1945-1956. University of North Carolina Press 2000
Teaching methods
e-learning
Assessment methods
- 3 pages long essay - weekly - 30% - comments on the essays of the other members of the seminar group - 30% - final essay - 40% the minimum for passing the seminar: 60%
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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