FAVBPa030 History of Film Theories after 1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Šimon Fiala (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Patrycja Astrid Twardowska
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 C34, except Tue 16. 4.
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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Course objectives
The lecture focuses on the dominant currents of film theory and historiography from the 1960s to the beginning of the 21st century. The aim is to introduce students to discipline-specific and interdisciplinary approaches to cinema research, including recent trends, including production studies or the use of social network analysis.
Learning outcomes
After finishing this course, students will have been able to formulate the main changes in the theoretical, critical and methodological reflection of cinema, as well as to understand them in the relevant historical context.
The knowledge provided by the lectures will give the students the capacity to understand how the history of discourses on cinema can be analysed. Besides, they will be able to understand the contemporary research perspectives from the historical context.
Syllabus
  • - Neorealism
    - Socialist realism
    - Auteur theory
    - Frankfurt School
    - Filmology
    - Semiotics and Post-semiotics
    - Screen Theory
    - Cultural Studies
    - New Film History
    - New Cinema History
    - Social Network Analysis and Art Worlds
    - Production Studies
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Maltby, Richard – Biltereyst, Daniel – Meers, Philippe (eds.): Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies. Malden-Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
  • CASETTI, Francesco. Filmové teorie 1945-1990. Translated by Helena Giordanová. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2008, 406 s. ISBN 9788073311438. info
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. (ed.) Nová filmová historie. Antologie současného myšlení o dějinách kinematografie a audiovizuální kultury. Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2004, 528 pp. info
    not specified
  • The Routledge encyclopedia of film theory. Edited by Edward Branigan - Warren Buckland. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014, xl, 526. ISBN 9780415781800. info
  • A companion to film theory. Edited by Toby Miller - Robert Stam. First published. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, vi, 428. ISBN 0631206442. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
Exam: a written test. partial tests - 20%, final test - 80%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
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