FAVKh011 Asian Cinemas: Selected Chaptures

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, 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
Sat 10. 4. 9:00–12:40 C34, Sat 24. 4. 16:00–17:40 C34, Sat 22. 5. 9:00–12:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course will be focused on selected films from Japan, China, Korea and India. We will try to analyze and interpret them, as well to understand their cultural differences. Especially we will discusse films from North and South Korea.
Learning outcomes
A student will be able to understand some cultural, genre and narrative specifics of Asian films.
Syllabus
  • 1. Cinema of Japan after WWII
  • 2. Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Kaneto Shindo, Masaki Kobayashi
  • 3. Cinema of South Korea
  • 4. Cinema of North Korea
  • 5. Cinema of China
  • 6. Cinema of Taiwan
  • 7. Indian auteur cinema, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen
  • 8. Indian popular cinema
  • 9. Iranian cinema
  • 10. Cinem of Turkey
  • 11. New Turkish Film
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SATO, Tadao. Currents in Japanese cinema. Translated by Gregory Barrett. First paperback edition. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1987, 288 stran. ISBN 4770013159. info
  • LÍMAN, Antonín. Mistři japonského filmu : 13 esejů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2012, 233 s. ISBN 9788074321986. info
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  • RICHIE, Donald. Japanese cinema : film style and national character. New York: Anchor Books, 1971, xxvi, 261. ISBN 0385094418. info
  • STANDISH, Isolde. A new history of Japanese cinema : a century of narrative film. New York: Continuum, 2006, 414 s. ISBN 0826417906. info
  • Japanese cinema : texts and contexts. Edited by Alastair Phillips - Julian Stringer. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2007, xviii, 363. ISBN 9780415328487. info
  • SATO, Tadao. Kenji Mizoguchi and the art of Japanese cinema. Edited by Aruna Vasudev - Latika Padgaonkar, Translated by Brij Tankha. English ed., 1st pub. Oxford: Berg, 2008, 196 s. ISBN 9781847882318. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Prodavač tofu Jasudžiró Ozu (Tofu seller Yasujiro Ozu). Film a doba. Praha: Sdružení přátel odborného filmového tisk, 2003, vol. 49, No 3, p. 133-136. ISSN 0015-1068. info
  • LEONG, Anthony C. Y. Korean cinema : the new Hong Kong : a guidebook for the latest Korean new wave. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2009, 266 s. ISBN 1553954610. info
  • PAQUET, Darcy. New Korean cinema : breaking the waves. 1st pub. London: Wallflower, 2009, 135 s. ISBN 9781906660253. info
  • LEE, Hyangjin. Contemporary Korean cinema : identity, culture and politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, vi, 244. ISBN 0719060087. info
  • Kim Ki-duk. Edited by Hye Seung Chung. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012, x, 161 p. ISBN 0252036697. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Má střeva mají devět kliček, má láska kvete v každé z nich (My intestine has nine curves, my love flowers deep in them). Film a doba. Praha: Sdružení přátel odborného filmového t., 2001, XLVII, No 3, p. 118-122. ISSN 0015-1068. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Kim Čong-il uvádí : Učitelka Čchö, režisér Sin a bonviván Kim (A Kim Jong-il Production : Teacher Choi, Director Shin and Bon Vivant Kim). Cinepur. Sdružení přátel Cinepuru, 2016, vol. 22, No 103, p. 52-54. ISSN 1213-516X. info
  • The poetics of Chinese cinema. Edited by Gary Bettinson - James Udden. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, xv, 227. ISBN 9781137566089. info
  • MISHRA, Vijay. Bollywood cinema : temples of desire. New York: Routledge, 2002, xxiv, 296. ISBN 0415930154. info
  • Cinema, emergence, and the films of Satyajit Ray. Edited by Keya Ganguly. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, xiii, 258. ISBN 9780520262171. info
  • Out of Asiathe films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou : essays and interviews. Edited by Bert Cardullo. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008, xi, 203 p. ISBN 9781847185310. info
  • DABASHI, Hamid. Close up : Iranian cinema, past, present and future. 1st pub. London: Verso, 2001, xii, 302. ISBN 1859846262. info
  • The new Iranian cinema : politics, representation and identity. Edited by Richard Tapper. Repr. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2004, xv, 282. ISBN 1860648045. info
  • Makhmalbaf at largethe making of a rebel filmmaker. Edited by Hamid Dabashi. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008, xxxi, 255. ISBN 9781845115326. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Íránský film (Iranian cinema). Uherské Hradiště: Asociace českých filmových klubů, 1999, 28 pp. info
  • Iranian cinema and globalizationnational, transnational and Islamic dimensions. Edited by Shahab Esfandiary. Bristol [England]: Intellect, 2012, xi, 240 p. ISBN 9781841504704. info
  • From Iran to Hollywood and some places in-betweenreframing post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Edited by Christopher Gow. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, xi, 235 p. ISBN 9780857720238. info
  • ELLINGER, Ekkehard and Kerem KAYI. Turkish cinema, 1970-2007 : a bibliography and analysis. Frankfurt am Main: Peter lang, 2008, 642 s. ISBN 9783631566541. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Top ten po turecku (Turkish Top Ten). Film a doba. Praha: Sdružení přátel odb. filmového tisku, 2004, vol. 50, No 3, p. 135-138. ISSN 0015-1068. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Spiritualita ve filmu. 1. vydání. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2007, 287 stran. ISBN 9788073251321. info
Teaching methods
Lectures (written form), watching movies, presentations, online discussions, reading, homework.
Assessment methods
Online discussions. An essay or presentation.
Language of instruction
Czech
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