FAVKS029 Film and its Spectator: Chapters from Theory and History of Film Reception

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2002
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
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
Course objectives
An overview of major concepts in contemporary film theory related to film spectatorship. This course focuses on the relation between the film medium, its aesthetic possibilities and practices, and the forms of film reception. The course will explore questions of film spectatorship above all from the perspective of recent film history (Gunning, Musser, Tsivian, Hansen, Elsaesser) which emphasizes the significance of the entire cinema experience for the process by which films convey meaning, pleasure, and subjectivity. Assessment: a written test. Literature: Abel, Richard (Ed.): Silent Film (New Brunswick - New Jersey 1996); Altman, Rick: Film/Genre (London 1999); Buckland, Warren: The Film Spectator. From Sign to Mind (Amsterdam 1995); Elsaesser, Thomas & Barker, Adam (eds.): Early Cinema. Space, Frame, Narrative (London 1992); Friedbergová, Anne: Window Shopping. Cinema and the Postmodern (Oxford 1993); Gombrich, E.H.: The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication (London 1999); Hansenová. Miriam: Babel and Babylon. Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Cambridge, London 1996); Musser, Charles: The Emregence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (New York 1990); Staigerová, Janet: Interpreting Films. Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (Princeton 1992); Williamsová, Linda (Ed.): Viewing Positions. Ways of Seeing Film (New Brunswick - New Jersey 1994)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kolokvium: písemný test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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