FAVz053 Restaging Memories/Masculine Aesthetics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stella Bruzzi (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Luděk Havel, 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.
The capacity limit for the course is 120 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/120, only registered: 0/120, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/120
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of this course is to understand the strategies of documentary cinema with focus on restaging and re-enactment of traumatic historical moments. In the second part of the lecture series student will be able to explore the topic of masculine aesthetics in terms of fatherhood and action films misenscene.
Syllabus
  • Thursday 23 April
  • 9.00-10.45 Film screening
  • Monday 27 April
  • 8.00-8.20 Entrance test
  • 8.30-12.20 Lecture 1: Jackie Kennedy’s pink suit and restagings of the JFK assassination Dallas, 22 November 1963
  • 12.30-14.05 Lecture 2: Oblique Memories of 9/11
  • Tuesday 28 April
  • 14.10-19.05 Lecture 3: Re-enactment in Contemporary Documentary
  • Wednesday 29 April
  • 14.10-15.45 Seminar: Place and Site-Specific Performance as Ways of Revisiting History
  • 16.05-17.40 Lecture 4: Hollywood’s Bad Italian American Fathers
  • Thursday 30 April
  • 8.00-10.45 Lecture 5: Is There a Masculine Aesthetic? How Mise-en-scene Tells the Man’s Story
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Fashion cultures : theories, explorations, and analysis. Edited by Stella Bruzzi - Pamela Church Gibson. London: Routledge, 2000, xv, 399. ISBN 0415206863. info
  • BRUZZI, Stella. New documentary : a critical introduction. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2000, 199 stran. ISBN 0415182964. info
Teaching methods
The series will consists of 5 topical lectures, accompanied by one seminar, where students will be asked to actively engage in the discussion on the particular topic. For each lecture, students are required to familiarize themselves with the provided reading. The course will be also accompanied by screenings of following movies (the exact schedule will be announced to the enrolled students in time): - The Eternal Frame (Ant Farm and T. R. Uthco, 1975) - Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008) - The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 2010) - The Battle of Orgreave (Jeremy Deller with Mike Figgis, 2001) - Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010) - House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949) - Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1956) - Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible 4 (Brad Bird, 2010)
Assessment methods
The attendance at all the lessons is 100% compulsory. Evaluation will be based on two tests. The introduction test will consists of two questions checking the reading for Lesson 1; the final test will contain three questions based on the overall reading and the lectures themselves. For each question student can gain two points, reaching to ten points maximum. In order to pass the course at least six points have to be gathered.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
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