FAVK029 Film and its Spectator: Chapters from Theory and History of Film Reception

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2006
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Timetable
Sat 9:10–12:25 C34, Sat 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
The introductory part of the course will focuse on a theoretical and historical overview of the most influential approaches and the most relevant researches in the area of media reception. Literature: Staiger, Janet: Media Reception Studies (New York 2005); Klinger, Barbara: Film History Terminable and Interminable: Recovering the Past in Reception Studies. Screen 38, 1997, 2, pp. 107-128; Henry Jenkins: Reception Theory and Audience Research: The Mystery of the Vampire s kiss. In: Ch. Gledhill, L. Williams (eds.), Reinventing Film Studies. Arnold, 2000; Denis McQuail: Úvod do teorie masové komunikace. Portál: Praha 1999; ; Pertti Alasuutari (ed.): Rethinking the media audience. The new agenda. Sage, 1999 Then, we will focus on researches of film reception and their methodological implications - the lectures will be clustered around following topics: 1. Historical-materialist approach. Literatura: Staigerová, Janet: Interpreting Films. Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (Princeton 1992); Staigerová, Janet: Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception (New York - London 2000) 2. Genre and Audience: semantic-syntactic-pragmatic approach; reception of genre and the role of cultural distinction. Literature: Altman, Rick: Film/Genre (London 1999); Cynthia Erb: Tracking King Kong. A Hollywood icon in world culture. Wayne state university press, 1998; Mark Jancovich: Genre and the Audience: Genre classifications and cultural distinctions in the mediation of The Silence of the Lambs. In: Stokes – Maltby: Hollywood spectatorship; Thomas Austin: „Gone with the wind plus fangs“: genre, taste and distinction in the assembly, marketing and reception of Bram Stoker s Dracula. In: Steve neale (ed.): genre and contemporary hollywood, 2002 3. Emergence of the "star discourse"; Richard Dyer - influences of semiotics and cultural studies on the concept of "star", other differentiation of the concept; film stars and reception - Rock Hudson, film stars and their reception in Britain of 40s and 50s. Literature: Richard deCordova: Picture personalities. The emergence of the star system in America. University of Illinosi press, 2001; Richard Dyer – 1979 – Stars; Jackie Stacey: Star Gazing. Hollywood cinema and female spectatorship. Routledge, 1994; Barbara Klingerová: Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. 1994 4. Cult movie and camp reception. "Classical" cult movie, midnight movies, paracinema. Cult movie as a pragmatically defined "genre". Literature: J.P. Telotte - the cult film experience. Beyond all reason. Austin: University of texas press 1991; Timothy Corrigan: a cinema without walls. Rutgers university press, 1991; Pamela Robertson: Guilty Pleasures. Feminist camp from Mae West to Madonna. Duke university press, 1996 5. Film fans - semiotic, enunciative and textual productivity of fandom; fandom activities; empirical researches. Literature: Henry Jenkins: Textual poachers. Television fans and participatory culture. 1992; Lisa A. Lewis (ed.) The adoring audience. Fan culture and popular media. 1992; Janet Staiger: Cabinets of transgression: collecting and arranging Hollywood images. In: Participations vol. 1, č. 3, 2005 6. Ethnographic approach; the role of memory for reception. Literature: Mark Jancovich – Lucy Faire – Sarah Stubbings: The place of the audience. Cultural geographies of film consumption. BFI, 2003;Sue Harper – Vincent Porter – Moved to tears: weeping in the cinema in postwar Britain. Screen 37, č. 2, s. 152-173 Annette Kuhn – Dreaming of Fred and Ginger. Cinema and Cultural Memory. New York University Press, 2002 Assessment: a written test.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kolokvium: písemný test.
Language of instruction
Czech
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