FF:FAV025 East. Eur. Cin. - Course Information
FAV025 Eastern Europen Cinema
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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