FAV025 Eastern Europen Cinema

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–12:25 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
An introduction to cinemas of Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia till 1990. The national cinemas will be observed in two aspects: art film and genre movies.
Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
to understand relationships between ideology, the party leadership and the film industry in the countries of „real socialism“;
acquainting students with the history of European socialist cinemas since 1945;
to experience selected films as a spectator.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction, periodization and typical genres of socialist cinemas
  • 2. Slovakia: Elo Havetta and Wild Lilies
  • 3. Slovakia: Martin Hollý and The Copper Tower
  • 4. Hungary: Miklós Jancsó and The Red and the White
  • 5. Polish school: Andrzej Wajda
  • 6. GDR: Kurt Maetzig and The Rabbit Is Me
  • 7. Romania: Stone Wedding
  • 8. Romania: Sergiu Nicolaescu
  • 9. Bulgaria: The Goat Horn
  • 10. Yugoslavia: the black wave and Dušan Makavejev
  • 11. Yugoslavia: partisan movies
Literature
  • FALKOWSKA, Janina. Andrzej Wajda : history, politics, and nostalgia in Polish cinema. 1st pub. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, viii, 340. ISBN 1845452259. info
  • The cinema of the Balkans. Edited by Dina Jordanova. 1st pub. London: Wallflower, 2006, xvi, 291. ISBN 1904764819. info
  • CUNNINGHAM, John. Hungarian cinema : from coffee house to multiplex. 1st pub. London: Wallflower Press, 2004, xii, 258. ISBN 1903364809. info
  • JORDANOVA, Dina. Cinema of the other Europe : the industry and artistry of East Central European film. 1st pub. London: Wallflower Press, 2003, x, 224. ISBN 1903364647. info
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Now is the Time To Rot Forever. Miklós Jancsó s Films in the Period 1981 to 1991. Kinoeye. 2003, vol. 3, No 4, p. www.kinoeye.org, 12 pp. ISSN 1475-2441. URL info
  • FEINSTEIN, Joshua. The triumph of the ordinary : depictions of daily life in the East German cinema, 1949-1989. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 331 s. ISBN 0807853852. info
  • JORDANOVA, Dina. Cinema of flames : Balkan film, culture and the media. 1st publ. London: BFI, 2001, 322 s. ISBN 9780851708478. info
  • DEFA : East German cinema, 1946-1992. Edited by Seán Allan - John Sandford. 1st pub. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999, x, 328. ISBN 1571817530. info
  • Five filmmakers : Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabó, Makavejev. Edited by Daniel J. Goulding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, xi, 289 s. ISBN 0-253-32609-5. info
Assessment methods
Cross-sectional lessons and screenings of selected films in full versions with English subtitles. Assessment: an essay.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Spring 2014.
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