ZUR521 Art and the media

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tomáš Bártek (assistant)
Mgr. Jan Miškov (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 9:45–11:15 AVC
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course deal with relations among communications and produce technologies, media, culture and art, about cultural transfer and about influence of mass media and mass communication on art. At the end of course students will be able to understand, how mass media affect artistic production and on the contrary how fine arts influence mass communication.
Syllabus
  • Communications and produce technologies, media and culture.
  • Theory of cultural text.
  • Culture, cultural areas, subcultures and contracultures.
  • Periodization of culture. 5. Session: Cultural epochs, currents and tendencies.
  • The cultural industry, mass art and popular culture.
  • Characteristics of artistic communication.
  • The epistemology of mass media.
  • The dramaturgy of artistic production in mass media.
  • The cultural transfer like keystone of construction of social reality.
  • Construction and analysis cultural transfer - translation.
  • Construction and analysis of cultural transfer - adaptation.
  • Construction and analysis of cultural transfer - revival.
  • General valuation of course.
Literature
  • Debicki, Jacek - Favre, Jean-François - Grünewald, Dietrich - Pimentel, Antonio Filipe: Dějiny umění. Malířství. Sochařství. Architektura. Praha : Argo, 1998.
  • McQuail, Denis: Teorie masové komunikace. Praha: Portál, 1999.
  • Pavelka, J.: Kultura, média, literatura. Brno: Středoevropské vydavatelství a nakladatelství Regiony, 2004
  • Pavelka, Jiří - Pospíšil, Ivo: Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993.
  • Postman, Neil: Ubavit se k smrti. Veřejná komunikace ve věku zábavy. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1999.
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, indiviual projects, homeworks, evaluation of projects
Assessment methods
written essay, credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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