FAVz013 Cinema and Memory

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Professor Annette Kuhn (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
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 105 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/105, only registered: 0/105, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/105
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to critically evaluate the method of oral history. Students will have a broader and more solid understanding of key aspects of the way memories are kept and used by narrators. Students will be familiar with seminal researches in film studies that were based on oral history.
Syllabus
  • - Cinema culture and femininity in the 1930s. - Cinemagoing in Britain in the 1930s: report of a questionnaire survey. - An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory. Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality, 1909-1925. London, Routledge. - Children, 'horrific' films, and censorship in 1930s Britain. Memory and Methodology
Literature
  • Stacey, Jackie. 1994. Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship. London: Routledge.
  • Kuhn, 1996. Cinema culture and femininity in the 1930s. In Nationalising Femininity, edited by C. Gledhill and G. Swanson. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Kuhn, A. (2002). An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory. London, I.B. Tauris.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
100% presence at the lectures is required. Colloquium: written test
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Výuka se koná ve dnech 18-20. listopadu 2008.
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