FAVz067 A Choice of Pleasures: Popular Filmgoing in the Nazi Era

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Joseph Garncarz (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Jančová (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Šardická (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 16. 10. 15:50–19:05 U34, Tue 17. 10. 15:50–19:05 U34, Wed 18. 10. 15:50–19:05 U34, Thu 19. 10. 15:50–19:05 U34
Prerequisites
There are none.
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
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Course objectives
The lectures will focus on questions of Joseph Garncarz´s actual research. He is the first researcher systematically analysing the film preferences of the German cinema audience during the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 to 1945. To this end, research methods had to be improved and charts ranking films according to their box office success had to be compiled. The charts have to be interpreted in terms of the patterns formed by the top hits. As to determine whether these preferences were distinctive, the charts for Nazi Germany have to be compared with annual hit lists of other European countries.
Syllabus
  • Monday, 15:50 – 17:25 First Lecture: Rethinking film in the Nazi era: Discourses and key concepts Reading: Roel Vande Winkel - David Welch, Europe´s New Hollywood? The German Film Industry Under Nazi Rule, 1933-45. In: Winkel - Welch eds., Cinema and the Swastika, pp. 6-24 Tobias Hochscherf - Roel Vande Winkel, Third Reich Cinema and Film Theory. in: Historical journal of film, radio and television, no. 2, 2016 Monday, 17:30 – 19:05 Second Lecture: Researching popularity I: Pleasure of entertainment and measuring success Reading: John Sedgwick: Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A choice of Pleasures. Exeter: Exeter University Press, pp. 70-73 Tuesday, 15:50 – 17:25 Third Lecture: Researching popularity II: Constructing a representative sample and audience demographics Reading: John Sedgwick: Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A choice of Pleasures. Exeter: Exeter University Press, pp. 61-70 Tuesday, 17:30 – 19:05 Film: "Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes / Robert Koch bojovník se smrtí" (1939, directed by Hans Steinhoff, produced by Tobis-Filmkunst) Wednesday, 15.50-17.25. Fourth Lecture: Selected findings I: Preferences of Jews and the Nazi elite Wednesday 17:30 - 19:05 Film: "Die Feuerzangenbowle / The Punch Bowl" (1944, directed by Helmut Weiss, produced by Terra-Filmkunst) Thursday, 15:50 – 17:25 Fifth Lecture: Selected findings II: On the entertainment value of films Reading: Patrick Merziger: 'German Humour' in Books: The Attractiveness and Political Significance of Laughter during the Nazi Era, in: Pleasure and Power in Nazi Cinema, eds. Pamela Swett, Corey Ross, Fabrice d´Almeida, pp. 107 - 131 Thursday, 17:30 – 19:05 Sixth Lecture: Selected findings III: Hollywood in Germany Reading: Karl Christian Führer, Two-Fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933-39, in: Führer - Ross, eds., Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany Joseph Garncarz: “‘Films that are applauded all over the world’: Questioning Chaplin’s Popu­larity in Weimar Germany”. Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol. 8, No. 3, August 2010, pp. 285-296.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: Obligatory 100% attendance (with the exception of distance students who are allowed to miss 2 out of 6 sessions).
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