USK_21 Film Projection I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Špaček (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Fri 17:30–19:05 zruseno D22
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
The seminars consist of video projections (opera, film, document, concert) preceded by a brief introductory lecture. The aim of the seminar is to broaden the cultural scope of students and ability to critically review and examine the work. The length of the seminar is irregular, depending on the actual duratas. A critical essay has to be submitted of 3600 to 7200 characters (2-4 norm pages, 500-1000 words).
Syllabus
  • This subject is for combined studies and takes place only four times per semester.
  • Here follows a list of projections in the weekly programme. An e-mail vote among students will decide about the screening in this programme, roughly a week ahead.
  • concerts:
  • Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in c minor, Op. 43
  • Hector Berlioz: Requiem - Grande Messe des Morts
  • Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Hohe Messe in h-Moll
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8
  • operas:
  • Dmitry Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
  • Philip Glass: Satyagraha
  • some of Dvořák's or Smetana's operas
  • Igor Stravinsky: Oidipus Rex
  • one of Richard Wagner's operas
  • Leoš Janáček: Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead)
  • Leoš Janáček: Příhody lišky Bystroušky (Cunning Littel Vixen - animated movie)
  • ballets:
  • Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo ana Juliet
  • Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka + Les Noces
  • Peter Čajkovskij: Swan Lake
  • films:
  • Stalker - directed by Andrey Tarkovsky (or another film of his)
  • King Lear (or Hamlet) - directed by Grigory Kozintsev
  • New Babylon - directed by Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
  • Moskva - Cheryomushki (film version of the operetta) - directed by Gerbert Rapaport
  • Alexandr Nevsky - directed by Sergey Eisenstein
  • Věc Makropulos (Makropulos Affair - film version of the opera) - directed by Václav Kašlík
  • Mahler - directed by Ken Russell
  • Ivan the Terrible - directed by Sergey Eisenstein
  • The Name of the Rose - režie Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - directed by Stanley Kubrick
  • Případ pro začínajícího kata - directed by Pavel Juráček
  • documentaries:
  • John Cage: I have nothing to say and I am saying it
  • Shostakovich against Stalin
  • Opera podle Josefa Berga + Kdo je Alois Piňos (Opera after Josef Berg + Who is Alois Piňos)
  • N. B. If accessible, the screenings are in the original language versions. If this is not Czech, then Czech or English subtitles are provided.
Literature
  • Hádanka života : dopisy Leoše Janáčka Kamile Stösslové (Orig.) : Intimate letters, Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslová. info
  • TYRRELL, John. Janáček. Years of a Life. Volume 1 (1854-1914). The Lonely Blackbird. Londýn: Faber and Faber, 2006, 971 pp. 1. ISBN 978-0-571-17538-3. info
  • WALSH, Stephen. Stravinsky : the second exile : France and America, 1934-1971. 1st pub. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006, xvii, 709. ISBN 0224060783. info
  • ECO, Umberto. Jméno růže. Translated by Zdeněk Frýbort. 3. vyd. Praha: Český klub, nakladatelství Josefa Šimona, 2005, 429 s. ISBN 808563788X. info
  • TARKOVSKIJ, Andrej and Miloš FRYŠ. Krása je symbolem pravdy. Rozhovory, eseje, přednášky, korespondence, filmové scénáře a jiné texty (Beauty is the Symbol of Truth). Příbram: Miloš Fryš, 2005, 456 pp. Camera obscura 1. ISBN 80-903678-0-1. info
  • FAY, Laurel E. Shostakovich : a life. 1st issued as an Oxford Univ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, xii, 458. ISBN 0195182510. info
  • ŠPAČEK, Jan. Soc-real Dancing: Elements of Socialist Realism in the Light Music of Dmitry Shostakovich. In Socialist Realism and Music [Colloquia Musicologica Brunensia, 36 (2001)]. Praha: KLP - Koniasch Latin Press ve spolupráci s Ústavem hudební vědy FF MU, 2004, p. 131-134. ISBN 80-86791-18-1. info
  • MAHLER-WERFEL, Alma Maria. Gustav Mahler : vzpomínky. Translated by Alena Jakubíčková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2001, 199 s. ISBN 8071853569. info
  • BLAUKOPF, Kurt. Gustav Mahler : současník budoucnosti. Edited by Jitka Ludvová, Translated by Eva Pátková. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1998, 240 s. ISBN 8086022315. info
  • TYRRELL, John. Janáček's operas : a documentary account. 1st pub. this paperback ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1998, xxv, 405. ISBN 0571195822. info
  • ŠTĚDROŇ, Miloš. Leoš Janáček a hudba 20. století : paralely, sondy, dokumenty. 1. vyd. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana, 1998, 301 s. ISBN 80-902197-4-8. info
  • TARKOVSKIJ, Andrej Arsen'jevič. Deník 1970-1986. Translated by Marek Sečkař. V ČR vyd. 1. Brno: Větrné mlýny, 1997, 547 s. ISBN 80-86151-01-8. info
  • JANÁČEK, Leoš and Kamila STÖSSLOVÁ. Intimate letters, Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslová. Edited by John Tyrrell. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994, xvi, 397 s. ISBN 0-691-03648-9. info
  • GLASS, Philip and Robert T. JONES. Opera on the Beach. Faber and Faber, 1989, 239 pp. ISBN 978-0571154937. info
  • ÈJZENŠTEJN, Sergej Michajlovič. Paměti. Praha: Odeon, 1987. info
Assessment methods
Every projection is precede by electronic vote about the planned programme. A brief introductory lecture (20-35 minutes) is followed by the screening itself. An optional discussion follows. An essay of 500-1000 words must be submitted at the end of every semester. The most important thing is the ability to make and formulate one's own critical opinion. Plain factual texts won't be accepted.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hodiny konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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