AJ47002 Kulturální studia (Spojené státy americké)

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2010
Rozsah
5x2. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Rozvrh
Pá 9:10–10:45 G31
Předpoklady
AJ40999 Postupová zkouška
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
Students who successfully complete the course will have a basic understanding of the main social, historical and political processes that shaped the African American journey from the slave cabin to the White House. Moreover they will be see that that the idea of “blackness” is much less a natural condition than a carefully designed, commercially exploited and politically abused cultural construct.
Osnova
  • The aim of the course is to offer an introduction to African American history, culture and representation. Students will get acquainted with the major historical, economic and political forces that formed African American identity. A no less important segment of the course is an investigation into the manner in which the African American image was reflected – or rather created – by American popular culture in general and commercial narrative film in particular.
  • The course consists of five seminars. Three seminars will focus on crucial moments in the history of the involuntary presence of African Americans in North America; two seminars will be devoted to a discussion of representative films that were instrumental in defining and later substantially altering the black screen image.
  • Course Program:
  • Week 1: African Americans: 1619-1865 -- Slavery
  • Week 2: African Americans: 1865-1954 – Freedom and Segregation
  • Week 3: African Americans: 1954-2010 – The Civil Rights Movement to Obama
  • Week 4: The Origin of Black Screen Image: D.W. Griffith & the Southern Myth
  • Week 5: Redefinitions, Transformations: the “Message Film”; Blaxploitation; the Present
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • POSPÍŠIL, Tomáš. Sambo tu již nebydlí? : obraz Afroameričanů v americkém filmu 20. století. 1. vyd. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana. 152 s. ISBN 8086258459. 2003. info
  • BOGLE, Donald. Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks : an interpretive history of Blacks in American films. 4th ed. New York: Continuum. xxv, 454. ISBN 082641267X. 2001. info
  • TAKAKI, Ronald. A different mirror :a history of multicultural America. 1st ed. Boston: Back Bay Books. ix, 508 s. ISBN 0-316-83111-5. 1993. info
Výukové metody
Seminar, on-line activities
Metody hodnocení
Written exam on Modules 1-3 (60% of final mark) and essay on Modules 4-5 (40% of final mark)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován jednou za dva roky.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2012, jaro 2014, jaro 2016, jaro 2018, jaro 2020, jaro 2025.