CJBC580 What does film tell us about the Czechs?

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2024
Rozsah
2/0/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
PhDr. Jan Čulík (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Ústav české literatury – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav české literatury – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Čt 10:00–11:40 Virtuální místnost, kromě Čt 31. 10., kromě Po 18. 11. až Ne 24. 11. ; a Čt 31. 10. 10:00–11:40 D51
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Mateřské obory/plány
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Cíle předmětu
Is cinema able to define the characteristic features of citizens in a particular nation? This is a question that Glasgow University lecturer Dr. Jan Čulík will attempt to answer in his English-language course "What does film tell us about the Czechs?", which will run at Masaryk university in the autumn of 2024.

The course will analyse a selection of Czech films from three different eras, including post-communism, and will attempt to find out what Czech film makers tell us about their fellow citizens living in Czechia.

This course will offer the unique opportunity to study the history of Czechoslovakia, a democratic country in Europe that has been dragged through Nazism and communism to emerge again as a democratic country by analysing a series of period feature films and key period literary texts which bear testimony of the value system of each historical era. The analysis of the period film works and literary texts will be framed within lectures explaining, with the help of relevant literature, the cultural and historical context.
Výstupy z učení
This course aims to:
• Review a case study of the twentieth century history of a medium-sized European nation to give an understanding of developments in recent European history;
• Improve critical and evaluative skills in the handling of a variety of primary and secondary sources, including period cultural material from the realm of cinema within the context of a relevant historical framework;
• Enhance confidence and independence of judgement in dealing with conflicting interpretations of major issues;
• Improve presentational and analytical skills through assessed essays, discussion, and group work.
• Identify the key characteristics of twentieth century historical development within a typical Central European nation and interpret cinematic cultural artefacts within the appropriate historical context
• Understand thoroughly the major political and social issues which have affected the lives of Europeans over the past hundred years ;
• Interrogate a variety of cinematic source materials and describe their role in the process of historical explanation;
• Apply critical and analytical skills in the analysis of cinematic cultural artefacts.
Osnova
  • Week 1: Introductory and Contextual Material
  • FILMS FROM FOUR ERAS:
  • A: THE INTERWAR DEMOCRATIC CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC:
  • Week 2: Život je pes (A Dog's Life), 1933
  • B: THREAT OF NAZISM and THE IMPACT OF NAZI OCCUPATION:
  • Week 3: Hugo Haas, Bílá nemoc (The White Disease), 1937
  • Week 4: Juraj Herz, Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator) 1968
  • Karel Kachyňa, Kočár do Vídně (A Coach to Vienna), 1966
  • C: STALINISM AND COMMUNISM:
  • Week 6: Karel Kachyňa, Ucho (The Ear) 1970, 1990
  • Week 7: Miloš Forman, Hoří, má panenko (Firemen's Ball), 1967
  • Week 8: Zdeněk Podskalský, Bílá paní (The White Lady), 1965
  • Week 9: Jaromil Jireš, Milan Kundera, Žert (The Joke), 1969
  • Week 10: Jiří Mádl, Vlny (Waves) 2024
  • D: POST-COMMUNISM:
  • Week 11: Vladimír Michálek, Nuda v Brně (Bored in Brno), 2003
  • Week 12: Jiří Havelka, Vlastníci (Owners), 2019
Výukové metody
lectures, seminar discussions, viewing films, writing personal film diaries throughout the course
Metody hodnocení
an essay of 2000 words to be submitted at the end of the course
Náhradní absolvování
no substitute grading
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Secondary literature and further information about individual topics, as well as links to the films TO BE VIEWED BEFORE EACH CLASS will be included in the section "studijní materiály" (materials for study).
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