FAVBPalt6 Authorship and Film

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Kos, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:00–11:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 69 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/69, only registered: 0/69, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/69
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce the most significant theoretical conceptions of authorship in film. Lectures will be divided to the two linked parts. The first part will contextualize every conception to the historical context and influential discussions about authorship. The second one will focus on the theoretical structure of every conception and explain its analytical devices. The course should help to the bachelor as well as master students, whose thesis are based on the analysis of one or more films of the significant film artist.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- understand the most significant conceptions of film authorship,
- explain theoretical background and analytical devices of each conception,
- contextualize these conceptions both to the history of authorship theory and to the general history of film theory.
Syllabus
  • The conceptional framework of the course will be summarizing text of Jane Staiger, which divides the authorship conceptions to the problem-based parts. This construction will be linked to the original authorship research of Czech silent cinema. The course will consist of twelve lectures, which will take place every week:
  • 1. Introductory lecture: introduction to the course and informations about exams and evaluation; a general problem of film authorship
  • 2. Authorship as origin
  • 3. Authorship as personality
  • 4. Authorship as signature
  • 5. Authorship as a sociology of production
  • 6. Authorship as reading strategy
  • 7. Authorship as a site of discourses
  • 8. Authorship as technique of the self
  • 9. Industrial and collective authorship
  • 10. Authorship in a poetological perspective
  • 11. Author as marketing strategy
  • 12. Possibilites of authorship in the Czech silent cinema
Literature
    required literature
  • BARTHES, Roland (2006): Smrt autora. Aluze: časopis pro literaturu, filosofii a jiné, č. 3.
  • BORDWELL, David. Poetics of cinema. New York: Routledge, 2008, xii, 499. ISBN 9780415977784. info
  • Authorship and film. Edited by David A. Gerstner - Janet Staiger. New York: Routledge, 2003, xii, 308. ISBN 0415939941. info
    recommended literature
  • BORDWELL, David (1981): The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of California Press.
  • SARRIS, Andrew (1968): The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
  • SELLORS, C. Paul (2007): Collective Authorship in Film. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, č. 3, s. 263-271.
  • A companion to media authorship. Edited by Jonathan Gray - Derek Johnson. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2013, xii, 561 p. ISBN 9781118495278. info
  • CALDWELL, John Thornton. Production culture : industrial reflexivity and critical practice in film and television. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008, x, 451. ISBN 9780822341116. info
    not specified
  • Theories of authorship : a reader. Edited by John Caughie. Repr. London: Routledge, 2001, ix, 316. ISBN 0415025524. info
  • BORDWELL, David, Janet STAIGER and Kristin THOMPSON. The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, xv, 506. ISBN 0231060556. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and screenings.
Assessment methods
The written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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