FAV179 Cinemas of the Far East

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 14:10–20:45 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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Abstract
This course offers an introduction to cinema of Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China, including Taiwan and Hong-Kong.
Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
to experience Asian films as a spectator
to know works of the important auteurs
to compare film productions of North and South Korea.
Key topics
  • Introduction, silent era in Japanese cinema
  • Japanese cinema in the 30ties, left-wigning cinema, Kenji Mozoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu
  • Japanese cinema after WWII, independent cinema, Kaneto Shindo
  • Akira Kurosawa and the other auteurs
  • New Wave in Japan, Nagosa Oshima, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Shohei Imamura
  • Six generations in Chinese cinema
  • Hongkong and Taiwan
  • Vietnamese cinema
Study resources and literature
  • LEONG, Anthony C. Y. Korean cinema : the new Hong Kong : a guidebook for the latest Korean new wave. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2009, 266 s. ISBN 1553954610. info
  • Japanese cinema : texts and contexts. Edited by Alastair Phillips - Julian Stringer. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2007, xviii, 363. ISBN 9780415328487. info
  • STANDISH, Isolde. A new history of Japanese cinema : a century of narrative film. New York: Continuum, 2006, 414 s. ISBN 0826417906. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Prodavač tofu Jasudžiró Ozu (Tofu seller Yasujiro Ozu). Film a doba. Praha: Sdružení přátel odborného filmového tisk, 2003, vol. 49, No 3, p. 133-136. ISSN 0015-1068. info
  • LEE, Hyangjin. Contemporary Korean cinema : identity, culture and politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, vi, 244 s. ISBN 0-7190-6007-9. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Planet Hong Kong: popular cinema and the art of entertainment. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000, xii, 329 s. ISBN 0-674-00213-X. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Ozu and the poetics of cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988, x, 406 s. ISBN 0-691-05516-5. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Lectures, class discussion, film screenings (the screening room, Bio Ponrepo Prague and Seminar of Asian films, Veselí nad Moravou (March).
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
The colloquium: an annotated filmography of 24 watched films for a group discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015.
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