FF:FAVBPalt4 Cinema in the occupied Europe - Course Information
FAVBPalt4 Cinema in the occupied Europe, 1939-1945
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 10:50–12:25 U34
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- 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 69 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/69, only registered: 0/69, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/69 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The course will provide students with concrete historical knowledge about similarities and diferences in reaction of film industry and audiences to occupation, and about the role and stability of fim industry practices or national traditions. The students will be introduced to theoretical courses, metodologies and research sources . Besides discussion on the situation in other European countries, the lectures will focus on Protectorate in Bohemia and Moravia.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be introduced to up to date researches on film industry and film culture in the period of WWII, as well as to methodological principles of comparative research, global history, local history, or oral history.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction into the course; film screening 2. Cultural Imperialism, cultural transfer, cultural continuity? 3. Hollywood, Ufa, and national demands: strategies of competition 4. (Re)organisation of film production and its goals: national traditions vs. global ambitions 5. Film distribution and practices of exhibition: market regulation 6. Popular film, film for people, or a "trash"? The case study of crime movies 7. Discourse on film in a totalitarian regime 8. Film popularity and (national) audiences 9. Film reception: films, stars, audiences 10. Transnational production and transnational imagination in totalitarian regimes?
- Literature
- Bednařík, Petr: Arizace české kinematografie. Praha: Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2003
- Dvořáková, Tereza – Klimeš, Ivan: Prag-Film AG 1941–1945. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Protektorats- und Reichskinemagografie. München: Edition text+kritik, 2008
- Hake, Sabine: Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001
- Roel Vande Winkel – David Welch (eds.): Cinema and the Swastika. The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- Mohn, Volker: Nacistická kulturní politika v Protektorátu. Koncepce, praxe a reakce české strany. Praha: Prostor, 2018
- Benjamin G. Martin: The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture. Cambridge – London: Harvard University Press, 2016
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, discussions.
- Assessment methods
- Testing knowledge of obligatory reading - up to 50% Written test focused on knowledge of Prag-film movies and history - 20% Final written test - 30%
- Language of instruction
- Czech
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