FAVh033 Memory and Nostalgia in Audiovisual Industries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
4/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:00–11:40 C34, except Wed 12. 5. ; and Wed 12. 5. 8:00–9:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Cinema and audiovisual industries are remarkable vehicles for articulation of national and cultural memory, nostalgic reminiscences, remembrance of remarkable life stories as wall as opening up wounds of recent past. Apart from new film history impulses, since 1970s film studies also demonstrate growing interest in the processes of memory and nostalgia. Therefore this course will provide a basic overview of the ways audiovisual industries express and co-create various forms of national, cultural and personal memory, introduce genres and stylistic modes associated with the aforementioned processes (historical films, biopics, heritage cinema, re-enactment strategies etc) and provide students with the paradigmatic methodological tools for analysing various intersections of cinema and the past.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students:
- will be familiarised with how memory and nostalgia operate within audiovisual industries
- will be able to identify and define crucial memory genres such as biopic, heritage, costume drama, or modes such as re-enactment, adaptation and pastiche
- are going to know and be able to use key methodological concepts for analysing those audiovisual works, which address and/or memory and nostalgia processes
Syllabus
  • 1. Key definitions - cultural memory and nostalgia
  • 2. Films from the distant past I. - costume drama
  • 3. Films from the distant past II. - national identity and politics
  • 4. Film from recent history I. - national identity and politics
  • 5. Film from recent history II. - nostalgia and lifestyle
  • 6. Heritage cinema - Great Britain and France
  • 7. "Ostalgia" - Central and Eastern European case
  • 8. Bio-pics I.
  • 9. Bio-pics II.
  • 10. Personal and audience memory
  • 11. Re-enactment and amnesiac memory
  • 12. Memory objects
Literature
    required literature
  • BURKE, Peter. Co je kulturní historie? Praha: Dokořán, 2011.
  • ASSMANN, Aleida. Prostory vzpomínání : podoby a proměny kulturní paměti. Translated by Jakub Flanderka - Světlana Ondroušková - Jiří Soukup. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2018, 482 stran. ISBN 9788024634333. info
  • JAMESON, Fredric. Postmodernismus, neboli, Kulturní logika pozdního kapitalismu. Translated by Olga Sixtová - Josef Šebek. Vydání první. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2016, 535 stran. ISBN 9788087950272. info
  • COOK, Pam. Screening the past : memory and nostalgia in cinema. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2005, xiii, 246. ISBN 0415183758. info
    recommended literature
  • VIDAL, Belén. Figuring the Past. Period Film and The Mannerist Aesthetic. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
  • HEDGES, Inez. World Cinema and Cultural Memory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • VINCENDEAU, Ginette (ed.). Film/Literature/Heritage. A Sight and Sound Reader. London: BFI Publishing, 2001.
  • CHESHIRE, Ellen. Bio-pics. A life in pictures. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2015.
  • MOSELEY, Rachel. Growing up with Audrey Hepburn. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002.
  • Memory in a global age : discourses, practices and trajectories. Edited by Aleida Assmann - Sebastian Conrad. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xiii, 252. ISBN 9780230272910. info
  • DYER, Richard. Pastiche. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2007, 222 s. ISBN 9780415340106. info
  • PIDDUCK, Julianne. Contemporary costume film : space, place and the past. 1st pub. London: BFI, 2004, [iv], 188. ISBN 184457024X. info
  • HIGSON, Andrew. English heritage, English cinema : costume drama since 1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xi, 282. ISBN 9780199259021. info
Teaching methods
Topical lectures with adjacent screenings.
The lectures will be recorded and uploaded into the IS system, where students can access the video files, play or download them anytime they want, in accordance with their schedules and time preferences.
During the semester the teacher will be available for online consultations, conversations and queries - Fridays March 26th, Friday April 23rd and Friday May 21st, starting at 14:00 till 15:00.
Language of instruction
Czech
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