FAVBKa02 Film Theory till 1945

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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
Timetable
Sat 27. 9. 9:10–12:25 C34, Sat 18. 10. 9:10–12:25 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
Course objectives
This course will focus on the discourses on cinema in the period until 1945 and their relation to reflection of modernity; on theoretical writing of film directors; on national context and transnational dimension of film clubs and film avant-garde. Main objectives: to understand the history of film theories; to understand the theories in a wider cultural and institutional context; to reflect the methodological approach towards a history of ideas.
Syllabus
  • - modernity and early cinema - USA: the discourse on cinema spectatorship, sociological research of cinema reception - Germany: Kinodebatte; reformist movement - France: disourses on cinema as science, art, educational tool, etc. - Russia: Proletkult, LEF, montage aesthetics - Czech lands: early cinema discourse and moral panic; leftist avantgarde and film
Literature
  • Abel, Richard: French Film Theory and Criticism. Princeton University Press, 1993
  • Anděl, Jaroslav - Szczepanik, Petr: Stále kinema. Antologie českého myšlení o filmu, 1904-1950. Praha: NFA, 2008
  • Tsivian, Yuri: Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
  • Hake, Sabine: The Cinema’s Third Machine. Writing on Film in Germany, 1907-1933 (1993)
  • Singer, Ben: Melodrama and Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Assessment: written tests during the term and at the end of the term.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017.
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