HIB0490 Communication and manipulation of images and ideas in discourse in the first half of the20th century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Němec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Filip Slezák (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Libor Jan, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 15:50–17:25 T227
Prerequisites
A basic overview of the history of the 19th and 20th century is expected.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar focuses on various forms of communication and political manipulation of images and ideas in public discourse in the modern history of Europe, especially Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Various strategies and practices of politial communication will be introduced on examples form history of the World War I and II, of interwar Czechoslovakia, of Nazi Germany, of Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and eventually of other countries and political regimes as communist Russia: politics of memory and politics of history, various forms of censorship, politics of forming of public image and "production of political reality" between propaganda, mass seduction and state education.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to analyze different communication practices in public discourse and to recognize the nature and substance of the message of political propaganda.
Syllabus
  • Public and poliical communication as propaganda and education. Historical development of the concept of propaganda. Institutions manipulating ideas in political communication in modern history. War propaganda on posters of World War I. Politics of memory and politics of history in interwar Czechoslovakia. Public image of the president - photos of Edvard Beneš. Hitler, Goebbels, and propaganda of Nazi Germany. Film as an instrument of war and ideological propaganda.
Literature
    required literature
  • Propaganda. Edited by Paul Baines - Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, xxvi, 304. ISBN 9781446255957. info
  • Propaganda. Edited by Paul Baines - Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, xxi, 319. ISBN 9781446255957. info
  • Propaganda. Edited by Paul Baines - Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, xix, 342. ISBN 9781446255957. info
  • Propaganda. Edited by Paul Baines - Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, liv, 344. ISBN 9781446255957. info
    recommended literature
  • Miroslav KOUBA - Dagmar MAGINCOVÁ - Ivo ŘÍHA: Kontexty propagandy. Pardubice 2012. ISBN 978-80-7395-515-1.
  • TAYLOR, Richard. Filmová propaganda : sovětské Rusko a nacistické Německo. Translated by Petruška Šustrová. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2016, 429 stran. ISBN 9788020025340. info
  • WITAMWAS, Birgit. Geklebte NS-Propaganda : Verführung und Manipulation durch das Plakat. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016, 292 stran. ISBN 9783110438086. info
  • Munice domácí fronty : angloamerický plakát z první světové války. Edited by Pavel Šmidrkal. Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna Pelhřimov, 2016, 95 stran. ISBN 9788074151316. info
  • HARWOOD, Jeremy. Hitlerova válka : prožijte druhou světovou válku, jak ji líčila nacistická propaganda v časopise Signal - a pak zjistěte, jak to bylo skutečně. Translated by Viktor Faktor. Vydání první. V Praze: Columbus, 2015, 224 stran. ISBN 9788087588451. info
  • LONGERICH, Peter. Goebbels : úplná biografie ministra propagandy Třetí říše. Translated by Vladimír Cinke. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2013, 718 s. ISBN 9788024739007. info
  • AULICH, James. Válečné plakáty : zbraně hromadné komunikace. Praha: Naše vojsko, 2009, 255 s. ISBN 9788020610485. info
  • VAUGHAN, David. Battle for the airwaves :radio and the 1938 Munich crisis. Translated by Pavla Horáková. 1. vyd. Praha: Radioservis, 2008, 112, 111. ISBN 9788086212791. info
  • PRATKANIS, Anthony R. and Elliot ARONSON. Age of propaganda : the everyday use and abuse of persuasion. 1st Holt pbk. ed. New York: Holt, 2007, xv, 416. ISBN 9780805074031. info
  • BERNAYS, Edward L. Propaganda. Edited by Mark Crispin Miller. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, 2005, 168 p. ISBN 0970312598. URL info
  • European culture in the Great War : the arts, entertainment, and propaganda, 1914-1918. Edited by Aviel Roshwald - Richard Stites. 1st paperback ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii, 430. ISBN 0521570158. info
Teaching methods
Reading and interpretation of texts, active participation on discussion.
Assessment methods
Final colloquium; seminar paper in form of an essay on given topic.
Language of instruction
Czech
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