FAVBKa09 History of World Cinema after 1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Luděk Havel, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Patrycja Astrid Twardowska
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Sat 12. 3. 13:20–16:35 C34, Sat 2. 4. 9:10–12:25 C34, Sat 16. 4. 13:20–16:35 C34
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
Course objectives
This course is focused on the history of film medium from the end of the World War II to the present time and its changes as technology, economic institution, cultural product and art. The course is based on Film History: An Introduction written by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell and a critical reading of this book (parts 4-6).
The main objectives can be summarized as follows:
To give basic information about the most important film movements, auteurs and events, especially from the point of view of "traditional" film history.
Various other approaches how to study and how to tell the history of world cinema will be confronted. Film will not be approached only as an art form, but also as an industry, whose changing practices of production and distribution effect the moviemaking practice.
As such the course will offer the basic frame for more specialized courses on world cinema.
At the end of the course students should be able to:
have an understanding of the contexts of main film movements as neorealism and new waves
analyse and interpret works of selected auteurs
describe changes in the visual and sound technologies.
Syllabus
  • Introduction.
  • The development of technologies (color, widescreen, stereo sound, television, video, digital technologies).
  • Hollywood ending 1945-1969.
  • Film art: neorealism.
  • Film art: new waves.
  • Film art: the other examples of auterism.
  • New Hollywood.
  • Eastern European cinema.
  • New cinemas in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
  • Documentary, avant-garde, underground, independents.
  • Politically critical cinema.
Literature
    required literature
  • THOMPSON, Kristin and David BORDWELL. Dějiny filmu : přehled světové kinematografie. Translated by Helena Bendová - Jan Bernard - Michal Bregant - Zdeněk Holý - V. První vydání. Praha: Akademie múzických umění, 2007, 827 stran. ISBN 9788071068983. info
    recommended literature
  • KOVÁCS, András Bálint. Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, xii, 427. ISBN 9780226451657. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, screenings, reading, homework.
Assessment methods
Critical reflection of K. Thompson - D. Bordwell: "Film History: An Introduction".
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Předmět se vypisuje jednou za 3 roky, další termíny jsou: jaro 2010, jaro 2013 atd.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Spring 2019.
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