FF:FAVBKa02 Film Theory till 1945 - Course Information
FAVBKa02 Film Theory till 1945
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2017
- 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 25. 11. 9:10–12:25 U34, Sat 2. 12. 9:10–12:25 U34
- 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
- Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, N-OT)
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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