FAVK004 Film and the city in the age of information technologies: urban imagination in contemporary cinema

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Markéta Dvořáčková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Sat 9:10–12:25 C34, Sat 13:20–16:35 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Both city and film represent experience, a process. Their relations have been reciprocal; they have been penetrating each other since film as a new experience of space entered the city, as well as the city Literature: BELL, David & HADDOUR, Azzedine (eds.) (2000): City visions. Harlow: Longman; BUKATMAN, Scott (1998): Terminal identity. The virtual subject in postmodern science fiction. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1. vyd. 1990; BARBER, Stephen (2003): Projected cities: cinema and urban space. London: Reaktions Books; CLARKE, David, B.,ed., (1997), The Cinematic City, London, New York, Routledge; DODGE, Martin & Kitchin Rob (2001): Mapping cyberspace. London: Routledge; DONALD, James (1999): Imagining the modern city. London: The Athlone Press; FEATHERSTONE, Mike & BURROWS, Roger (eds.) (1998): Cyberspace, cyberbodies, cyberpunk: cultures of technological embodiment. London: Page Publication, 3. vyd.; GIBSON, William (1992): Neuromancer, přeložil Ondřej Neff, Plzeň: Laser, 1. angl. vyd. 1984; HAKKEN, David (1999): Cyborg@cyberspace?: an ethnographer: Look to the future. New York: Routledge; KRAUSE, Linda, PETRO, Patrice (eds.) (2003): Global cities. Cinema, architecture, and urbanism in a digital age. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press; LÉVY, Pierre (2000): Kyberkultura: zpráva pro Radu Evropy v rámci projektu "Nové technologie: kulturní spolupráce a komunikace". přeložili Michal Kašpar a Anna Pravdová, Praha: Univerzita Karlova; McQUIRE, Scott: Visions of modernity. Representation, memory, time and space in the age of the camera, London: Sage; MITCHELL, William J. (1996): City of bits: space, place and the infobahn,: Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; MITCHELL, William J. (2004): e-topia: život ve městě trochu jinak. Praha: Zlatý řez; NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Jolana (1998): Kyberpunk v díle Wiliama Gibsona a jeho přínos pro sociální teorie. Brno: Dipl. práce FSS MU, Brno; NUNN, Samuel: ”Designing the Solipsistic City: Themes of urban planning and control in the Matrix, dark City, and The Truman show”, www.ctheory.net; SASSEN, Saskia (2002): Global networks, linked cities. NewYork: Routledge; SHIEL, Mark & FITZMAURICE, Tony (eds.) (2001): Cinema and the city. film and urban societes in a global Context, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers; SOBCHACK, Vivian (1999): Cities on the edge of time: the urban science-fiction film. In: KUHN, Anette (ed.) (1999): Alien zone II: the spaces of science-fiction cinema. London, New York: Verso; SOBCHACK, Vivian (1987): Screening the Space: The American Science Fiction Film, second enlarged edition, New Brunswick, New Yersey and London, Rutgers University Press; SOJA, Edward (1989): Postmodern geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso, 1. vyd; SOJA, Edward (2000): Postmetropolis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1.vyd.; STAIGER, Janet (1999): Future noir: contemporary representation of visionary cities. In: KUHN, Anette (ed.) (1999): Alien zone II: the spaces of science-fiction cinema. London, New York: Verso; TICHÁ,Jana (ed.) (2001): Architektura na prahu informačního věku, Praha: Zlatý řez; TICHÁ, Jana (ed.) (2006) Architektura v informačním věku, texty o moderní a současné architektuře II, Praha: Zlatý řez; VIDLER, Anthony (1992): The Architectural Uncanny. Essays in the Modern Unhomely. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; VIRILIO, Paul (1999): Přeexponované město, In: Revue Labyrint, Praha, č. 5-6, s.165-169; WELSCH, Wolfgang (1997): Umělé rajské zahrady? Iluminace, Praha, č. 3, s. 89-106; WESTWOOD, Sallie; WILLIAMS, John (eds.) (1997): Imagining cities. Scripts, signs, memory. London, New York: Routledge.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
průběžná práce s texty označenými za "klíčové", referát
Language of instruction
Czech
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