SUS_49 Chapters from Film History I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Marika Kupková, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (deputy)
PhDr. Aleš Filip, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Aleš Filip, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 8:00–9:40 N51
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 190 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/190, only registered: 0/190, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/190
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Abstract
This course is focused on World Cinema from its emergence to 1945. Film is and has been simultaneously art form, technology, economic institution, and cultural product. We come to understand better how that system operates and how it changed over time. We are guided by concept of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Our principal question are: how uses of the film medium changed or become normalized over time? How have the conditions of the film industry-production,distribution, and exhibition-affected the uses of the medium? How have international trends emerged in the uses of the film medium and in the film marked?
Learning outcomes
will have an overview of the development of aesthetic styles and trends of the first half of the 20th century in the film
will be familiar with the important social, economic and political influences that influenced contemporary film
be aware of changes in the relationship of state power to film in Czechoslovakia
will be able to critical reflection of the film, to know important publishing platforms
have a basic overview of film genres and expressive resources
Key topics
  • 1. Beginnings of film
  • 2. D.W. Griffith, Ch. Chaplin, Silent film: Germany / Scandinavia / France
  • 3. Soviet avantgarde
  • 4. Sound film, genre film, studio system
  • 5. Citizen Kane
  • 6. Czech cinema
  • 7. Neorealism
  • 8. Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa
  • 9. Hitchcock, Bunnel, Antonioni
  • 10. Eastern Europe after 1953
  • 11. Predecessors of the New wave
  • 12. New wave
Study resources and literature
    recommended literature
  • MONACO, James. Jak číst film : svět filmů, médií a multimédií : umění, technologie, jazyk, dějiny, teorie. Translated by Tomáš Liška - Jan Valenta, Illustrated by David Lindroth. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 2004, 735 s. ISBN 9788000014104. info
  • BILÍK, Petr. Panorama českého filmu. Vyd. 1. Olomouc: Rubico, 2000, 514 s. ISBN 80-85839-54-7. info
  • BROŽ, Jaroslav and Myrtil FRÍDA. Historie československého filmu v obrazech : 1930-1945. 1. vydání. Praha: Orbis, 1966, 293 stran. info
  • SMRŽ, Karel. Film. Podstata, historický vývoj, technika, možnosti a cíle kinematografu. Praha: Prometheus, 1924. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
The course will consist of lectures
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Teacher's information
Doporučená literatura: Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin: Film History: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994; Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (ed.): The Oxford History of World Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; Sklar, Robert: Film. An International History of the Medium, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993; Giannetti, Louis, Eyman Scott: Flashback. A Brief History of Film, New Yersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001; Deleuze, Gilles: Film 1. Obraz- pohyb. Praha: NFA, 2000; Sklar, Robert: Movie - Made America. A Cultural History of American Movies. New York: Vintage Books, 1974, 1994 (druhé, rozšířené vydání); Charney, Leo, Schwartz, R. Vanessa: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1995; Tsivian, Yuri: Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. metodologie: Allen, C. Robert, Gomery, Douglas: Film History, Theory and Practice. McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1985; Gledhill, Christine; Williams Linda (eds.): Reinventing Film Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Další literatura k jednotlivým přednáškám bude uvedena v příslušných oddílech sylabu.
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among prerequisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024, Autumn 2025, Autumn 2026.
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