IM105 Filmology. Language of Film and New Media II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marika Kupková, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 16:00–17:40 N21
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 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: interpret the specific techniques and concepts of the operation with moving image
understand to the selected filmological concepts
characterize contemporary interpretative strategies that are classified art into the social, economic and technological contexts
orientate himself in the professional discourses (art history, film studies, visual studies), which simultaneously examine some phenomena such as productions of new media
Syllabus
  • Interpretation of selected concepts of film theory with regard to the new-media context.
  • Technological milestones that significantly influenced development of the audiovisual production such as the arrival of the sound film, colour film and widescreen formats, expansion of the magnetic recording of the image and sound, digital technologies.
  • Inosculation of the disciplinary discourses in the visual arts, film and new media; examples of art projects that appear on the boundary between these disciplines.
  • Parallel interpretative tendencies – the new art history, new film history; the phenomenon of visual studies; neuroscience.
  • Specific “material” and ideological context of the visual arts and film, early cinema, compared with current forms of art (installation).
  • Influence of the technical historical contexts on the aesthetical and perceptual standards.
Literature
    required literature
  • Výzva perspektivy : obraz a jeho divák od malby quattrocenta k filmu a zpět. Edited by Petra Hanáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 216 s. ISBN 9788020016256. info
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. "Zrození" filmové historie. Nástup zvuku a média objevující vlastní minulost (The "Birth" of Cinema History: Coming of Film Sound and Media Inventing their Own Past). Iluminace. Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2005, vol. 17, č. 3,, p. 47-82. ISSN 0862-397X. info
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. (ed.) Nová filmová historie. Antologie současného myšlení o dějinách kinematografie a audiovizuální kultury. Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2004, 528 pp. info
    recommended literature
  • STURKEN, Marita and Lisa CARTWRIGHT. Studia vizuální kultury. Translated by Lucie Vidmar - Milan Kreuzzieger. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2009, 471 stran. ISBN 9788073675561. info
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. Konzervy se slovy. Počátky zvukového filmu a česká mediální kultura 30. let (Cans with Words. Coming of Sound Film and Czech Media Culture of the 1930s). 1st ed. Brno: Host, 2008, 536 pp. Host. ISBN 978-80-7294-316-6. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Konec dějin umění. Translated by Jan Hlavička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 244 s. ISBN 8020408568. info
Teaching methods
homework reading, class discussion
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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