FAVt1 Film, cognition, emotions

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Kučera (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 13:20–14:55 12
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
This course will focus on specific questions and issues raised by particular texts of cognitive film theory. Special attention will be paid to those theories that account for emotional response to film (i.e. those of Murray Smith, Carl Plantinga, Torben Grodal, Ed Tan). However, rather than sticking to a monolithic perspective, we will read the respective texts on a contrasting background of other theoretical texts or contexts, so that we can better see both their applicability and their drawbacks. Texts: Allen, Richard, and Murray Smith (eds.): Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997); Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989); Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985); Bordwell, David-Noel Carroll (eds.): Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996); Branigan, Edward: Narrative Comprehension and Film (New York: Chapman and Hall, Inc., 1992); Buckland, Warren: Cognitive Semiotics (Cambridge University Press: 2000); Carroll, Noel: Mystifying Movies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988); Grodal, Torben: Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1997); Livingston, Paisley. Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1992); Plantinga, Carl. Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Smith, Gregory, and Carl Plantinga, eds. Passionate Views: Thinking about Film and Emotion (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998); Smith, Murray. Engaging Characters (Oxford University Press, 1995); Tan, Ed S. Emotions and the Structure of Narrative Film: Film as an Emotion Machine (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996).
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelná přednáška. Ukončení - kolokvium: esej (10 stran).
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 2006.
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