FAV049 Cinema, Body, Mind, and Evolution

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Torben Grodal (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
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
Course objectives
The lecture will provide an introduction to some major aspects of Grodals original theoretical conception. It will comprise of the following parts: 1. Cinema, body and mind: the 'flow model'. 2. Narrative patterns and comments on videogames and the aesthetics of muscles. 3. Evolution, romantic films, melodramas and pornography. 4. The reality status, comedy, horror and science fiction. 5. Art film and the aesthetics of subjectivity. Dates: 10. 3. - 14. 3. 2003. Torben Grodal (1943) 1972-1988 is a professor at the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen. The central field of his research have been working out a holistic theory that describes the relation between perception, cognition, emotions and action in the reception of audiovisual communication. A special dimension of this research is the description of the relation between innate and historical factors in the production and reception of audiovisual products. The research combines film theory with cognitive science and emotion theory. Related fields of research have been genre theory, art film theory, metaphor theory, and computer game theory. Other fields of research include Danish film, American films, general aesthetics, nonverbal communication, the history of film theory. His major publication in English is the treatise Moving Pictures. A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings and Cognition (Oxford University Press 1997) and some essential articles: Subjectivity, Realism and Narrative Structures in Film. In: I. Bondebjerg (ed.): Moving Images, Culture & the Mind. University of Luton Press 2000, s. 87-104; Art film, the Transient Body and the Permanent Soul. Aura Vol. VI, Issue 3/2000; Film, Character Simulation, and Emotion. In: J. Friess. N. Hartmann, E. Müller (eds.): Nicht allein das Laufbild af der Leinwand... Strukturen des Films als Erlebnispotentiale. Vistas Verlag 2001. Video games and the pleasures of control. In. Zillman, Vorderer (eds.): Media Entertainment: The Psychology of its Appeal. Lawrence Erlbaum Ass. 2000; Emotions, Cognition and Narrative Patterns in Film. In: Plantinga, Smith (eds.): Passionate Views. Johns Hopkins Press 1999.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 10.3. - 14.3.
General note: Podrobnějsí informace na adrese www.phil.muni.cz/divfil/fav/pozvanka_CAVK3.html. Předmět je nabízen téz studentům doktorského studia.
Credit evaluation note: 5 kreditů pro studenty PGS.
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