FAV245 Theory of serial fiction

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:50–12:25 C34
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
Student'll obtain (a) complex knowledge about television serial fiction as aesthetic phenomenon, (b) competences and theoretical devices for formal and narratological analysis of television serial fiction.
Syllabus
  • - Problematics of serial fiction: basic devices - Fictional worlds theory - Viewer's activity - Process of fictisation - Fictipedia I - Fictipedia II - Narrative dynamics in fictional worlds - Typology of seriality and function of this typology for understanding of phenomenon of serial fiction - Theoretical nature of each types from fiction theory perspective
Literature
  • KOKEŠ, Radomír. Fikce, (makro)světy a typologie seriality (Fiction, (macro)worlds and the typology of seriality). Online. In Fořt, Bohumil. Heterologika : poetika, lingvistika a fikční světy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2012. p. 149-174. ISBN 978-80-85778-88-5. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • KOKEŠ, Radomír. Teorie seriálové fikce : možné cesty naratologické analýzy televizního seriálu (Serial fiction theory : possible narratological analysis techniques for the television serial). Online. In Intermediální poetika příběhu. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2011. p. 228-257. ISBN 978-80-85778-80-9. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • ECO, Umberto. Lector in fabula : role čtenáře, aneb, Interpretační kooperace v narativních textech. Online. Translated by Zdeněk Frýbort. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2010. 290 s. ISBN 9788020018281. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • KOKEŠ, Radomír. Fikční světy (kriminálního) televizního seriálu (Fictional Worlds of (Crime) Television Series). Online. Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2009, vol. 21, No 4, p. 5-36, 31 pp. ISSN 0862-397X. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • DOLEŽEL, Lubomír. Heterocosmica. Fikce a možné světy (Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds). Online. Vydání české první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2003. 311 pp. ISBN 80-246-0735-2. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • BORDWELL, David. Narration in the fiction film. Online. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xiv, 370. ISBN 0299101746. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussion
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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