FAVz055 Transformation Processes: Screen Industries in East-Central Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Marie Barešová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D. (assistant)
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
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 has a form of an international conference. The fifth annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe (SIECE) conference considers how systemic institutional, legislative, and technological changes within the screen industries have influenced production, content, distribution, and reception. The conference continues to provide a platform for the interdisciplinary examination of media in this region while facilitating productive exchanges between industry professionals and scholars. This year’s theme reflects the conference location of Slovakia, a nation which saw its domestic cinema come close to perishing in the 1990s, only to see it re-emerge as a stable media hub after 2004, a time when the local industry needed to respond to global technological developments such as digitization. The conference theme is intended to foster a plurality of approaches to thinking about how myriad transformative processes have shaped screen media in the last 25 years. In so doing, the organizers hope to redirect attention from considerations of the impact of denationalization toward the application of broader international and historical perspectives.

The Fifth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference investigates the historical and contemporary dimensions of the region’s audiovisual media industries from all angles – local, transnational, economic, cultural, social, and political – and through a broad range of original scholarship delivered in the form of both conceptual papers and empirical case-studies.
Syllabus
  • Topics for papers and panels (20-21 November) include:
  • • systemic changes across the history of cinema and television (including changes preceding denationalization that could be used for comparative purposes) and their impact on production, distribution, and marketing
  • • the changing status of national cinemas; geopolitical developments
  • • denationalization: the beginning of the end of an industrial system or a new system for small nation film and television industries?
  • • redefining borders between amateur and professional production, and between fiction, documentary, and animation
  • • new distribution channels (VOD, festivals) and multi-source financing models (international co-production and grants, crowd funding etc...)
  • • public institutions as agents of systemic change
  • • technological changes and their impact on aesthetics
  • • new forms of reception
  • On 19 November, the conference will be preceded by a pre-conference meeting in the Czech language and the Slovak language, comprising workshops, presentations introducing research projects, and a panel examining the impact of digitization on production, distribution, and legislation.
Teaching methods
Lectures of multiple visiting lecturers in English (plus a pre-conference session on distribution in Czech).
Assessment methods
Written conference report.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
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