FAVK006 Beginning of the film censorship and the public education

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Lucie Česálková, 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
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Course objectives
Beginning of the film censorship and the public education: One of the criterions for evaluating cinematography in the early period was the vaguely defined criterion of morality. Various cultural and educational institutions, religious associations and women leagues tended to express their opinion on the new popular entertainment and understood it as the instrument of great influence. In their reflections these institutions delimited the definition of the so called right, moral film and strived to control and regulate film production and distribution. In the effect their complaints led to the establishment of censorship boards as autonomous institutions. The course will show the beginning of establishment of censorship in Czechoslovakia and other countries and will emphasize the influence of educational institutions in the process. The censorship models of main European countries (Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy etc.) will be compared. The course will mainly focus on censorship as specific cultural institution, but particular cases of regulating the formal or thematic shape of films will be mentioned as well.
Literature
  • GRIEVESON, Lee. Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early.Twentieth Century America. University of Columbia Press. Los Angeles, 2004. info
  • CANEPELLE, Paolo. Entschiedungen der Weiner Filmzensur. Wien. Filmarchiv Austria, 2002. info
  • DOHERTY, Thomas. Pre-code Hollywood. Sex immorality an insurrection in American cinema 1930–1934. Columbia University Press. New York, 1999. info
  • BLACK, Gregory. Hollywood censored. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. info
  • ROBERTSON, James. The British Broad of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain 1896–1950. Croom Helm. London, 1985. info
  • ROBERTSON, James. The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action. Britain 1913–1975. London: Croom Helm. Croom Helm. London, 1985. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
pravidelná docházka, domácí práce, kolokvium
Language of instruction
Czech
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