FAVz065 Textual Analysis and Film Studies: Criticism, Interpretation, Evaluation

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2017
Rozsah
2/0/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Tom Brown (přednášející)
Mgr. Veronika Jančová (pomocník)
Mgr. Kateřina Šardická (pomocník)
Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D. (náhr. zkoušející)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 18. 4. 15:50–19:55 U34, St 19. 4. 15:50–19:55 U34, Po 24. 4. 15:50–19:55 U34, Út 25. 4. 15:50–19:55 U34, St 26. 4. 9:10–13:15 U34, 15:00–19:55 U34
Předpoklady
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Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 10 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The Textual analysis and film studies is a short, intensive course, which will take place at the end of April. Student attendance is 100% compulsory at all lectures!
The vibrancy of contemporary film studies is evident in the wide range of methodologies it offers. Film Studies’ many specialist journals, conferences, special interest groups and associations are the home of healthy debate about how precisely the discipline’s object of study should be approached, yet it remains perhaps surprising that, as Richard Dyer has remarked, there is often relatively little “film” in much film studies research. This 6 lecture course will take the students through many key historical debates about how “textual analysis” should be undertaken and examine some of the most important film texts around which these debates have raged. The course also considers the recent, contested (re)turn towards “criticism” and the claims being made for video essays and videographic film criticism in recent years. As well as exploring urgent meta-critical issues, the module will look at case studies whereby traditions of “close reading” are brought to bear on aesthetic categories normally anathema to such an approach (i.e. the middlebrow and the spectacular).
Osnova
  • SCREENINGS
  • Meet me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
  • Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
  • Amazing Grace (Michael Apted, 2006)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
  • Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood, 1939)
  • A collection of video essays selected by Tom Brown
  • Lecture 1 – The place of “textual analysis” within Film Studies
  • Lecture 2 – Interpretation and its discontents
  • Lecture 3 – Academic film criticism in the 21st century
  • Lecture 4 – The Middlebrow: aesthetic and political evaluations
  • Lecture 5 – Evaluating film spectacle
  • Lecture 6 – Videographic Film Criticism
Výukové metody
Six lectures will be accompanied by six screenings. These sessions consist of an approx. 15 minutes introduction and a film selected by Tom Brown. The lectures will then develop and elaborate on the topics articulated in the films.
Metody hodnocení
Students will have to pass two tests in order to successfully complete the course. First test, containing two questions, will take place just before Lesson 1 starts and will check students familiarization with reading required for Lesson 1 and 2. After the semester ends, students will be examined one more time. The final test will contain three questions, based on the complete reading list and also on the lectures themselves. The evaluation is thus based on the total sum of points gathered from both tests, with ten points being the maximum to be obtained.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Dr. Tom Brown is a senior lecturer in film studies at Kings college in London. His work is invested in combining methodologies derived from film historiography, film theory and the practice of close analysis in innovative ways. He is particularly interested in cinematic narration (agency, rhetoric, self-consciousness etc.), the theorisation and historicisation of film spectacle (especially in the genres of the musical and the historical film) and in film’s representation of history more broadly. Tom published articles and chapters on historical spectacle and performance of history and co-edited volumes on film moments, DVD technology and the biopic genre. He is the author of the following monographs:
Breaking the fourth wall: direct address in the cinema. 2012 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
Spectacle in "classical" cinemas: Musicality and historicity in the 1930s. 2015 Taylor and Francis Inc.
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Obligatory 100% attendance (with the exception of distance students who are allowed to miss 2 out of 6 sessions).
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