FAVh042 Studying Asian Cinema

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Daniel Krátký (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, 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 10:00–11:40 C34
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 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 3/10, only registered: 0/10
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Course objectives
This course aims to introduce students to a variety of limitations when discussing Asian cinema from the perspective of a Western scholar. We will read and analyse texts by Donald Richie, David Bordwell, Noel Butch, Shirley Ando, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto and more. The students will—in a series of discussions, presentations, homework, and readings—explore concepts such as orientalist, Nihonjinron, essentialism, transnational or hybridity in the context of film studies.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to understand different types of thinking about Japanese cinema or culture from the perspective of Western scholars. They will also gain the tools and terminological devices to define their own position.
Syllabus
  • There will be two introductory lectures and the rest of the course will consist of discussions and seminars regarding key texts.
Literature
  • BURCH, Noel. To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema. University of California Press, 1979.
  • The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Edited by Daisuke Miyao. 2014, 496 s.
  • RICHIE, Donald and ANDERSON, Joseph. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Princeton University Press, 1982.
  • RICHIE, Donald. Japanese Cinema: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Giant creatures in our world : essays on kaiju and American popular culture. Edited by Camille D. G. Mustachio - Jason Barr. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017, vi, 206. ISBN 9781476668369. info
  • BARR, Jason. The kaiju film : a critical study of cinema's biggest monsters. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016, vi, 203. ISBN 9780786499632. info
  • Directory of world cinema. Edited by John Berra. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2010, 297 p. ISBN 9781841503356. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Ozu and the poetics of cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988, x, 406. ISBN 0691008221. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions, students presentations, homework, and simulation of existing polemics by different scholars.
Assessment methods
The grade will consist of activities in discussions, homework, presenting homework, and group presentation.
Language of instruction
Czech
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