FAVBPa11 Film Seminar B (connected with Introduction to Theory of Film)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded 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
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:05 U34
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAVBPa01 Introduction to Film Studies && FAVBPa10 Seminar A
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the first part of the seminar series, we will discuss the narratological model of David Bordwell. The second part will focus on various modes of the European modernist cinema and the Bordwell s concept will be compared with the approach of the Hungarian narratologist Andras Balint Kovacs.
Syllabus
  • - theoretical and methodological introduction - classical narration - art-cinema narration - historical-materialist narration - parametric narration - modernism in cinema - style and form in modernist cinema
Literature
    required literature
  • Narration in the Fiction Film. David Bordwell. Wisconsin: Wisconsin University Pressm 1985, s. 384, ISBN 0-299-10174-6
  • KOVÁCS, András Bálint. Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, xii, 427. ISBN 9780226451657. info
Teaching methods
Class presentation and discussion.
Assessment methods
graded credit: written essay, 5 pages
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2019.
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