FAV091 Europe and Hollywood

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Tue 10:00–11:35 C34
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 deals with the relation of the European and the Hollywood cinema – the first of the two terms this extensive lecture will be focused on: - the history of the economic relations of Hollywood and the chosen European countries (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy); the history of exhibition and reception of American cinema in Europe, and vice versa; Euro American culture-political relations, as they are proved in the state regulation of import, in a discursive construction of the national cinema, or in the practices of censorship. A specific attention will be dedicated to the Czechoslovak film industry. The historical context will be a background for the second part of the lecture, where we deal with some more specific topics – e.g., coproduction (as both economical and cultural strategy of a competition – or cooperation – with Hollywood); a circulation of stylistic or narrative patterns (e.g., film noir, French and German new wave...); globalization and inter-cultural reception; the status of stars and directors in a foreign cultural space (Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Hugh Grant...). Literature: ELSAESSER, Thomas (2005): European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. NOVELL-SMITH, Geoffrey - RICCI, Stephen (eds.): Hollywood and Europe. Economics, Culture, National Identity: 1945-95. London: BFI. STOKES, Melvyn - MALTBY, Richard (eds.) (2004): Hollywood Abroad. Audience and Cultural Exchange. London: BFI. TRUMPBOUR, John (2002): Selling Hollywood to the world: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the global Film Industry, 1920-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SEGRAVE, Kerry (1997): American Films Abroad. Hollywood s Domination of the World s Movie Screen from the 1890s to the Present. McFarland&Company. GARNCARZ, Joseph (1994): Hollywood in Germany: The Role of American Films in Germany, 1925-1990. In: Ellwood, David W. – Kroes, Rob (eds), Hollywood in Europe: Experiences of a Cultural Hegemony. Amsterdam: VU University Press, s. 122-35. KRAMER, Peter (2002): Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood. In: Bergfelder, Tim – Carter, E. - Göktürk, D. (eds.), The German Cinema Book. London: BFI, s. 227-37. SORLIN, Pierre (1991): European Cinemas, European Societies. London - New York: Routledge. GUBACK, Thomas (1969): The International Film Industry. Western Europe and America Since 1945. Indiana University Press, s. 37-67. JARVIE, Ian (1994): The Postwar Economic Foreign Policy of the American Film Industry: 1945-1950. In: Ellwood – Kroes: Hollywood in Europe. Experiences of Cultural Hegemony. Amsterdam, s. 155-175. WAGNLEITNER, Reinhold (1994): American Cultural Diplomacy, The Cinema, and the Cold War in Central Europe. In: Hollywood in Europe, s. 197-211.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Písemný test, vyžadující znalost odpřednášené látky a všech textů, zadaných k četbě.
Language of instruction
Czech
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