FAV150 Media and documentary. Workshop on creative writing about documentary film

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr., BcA. Andrea Slováková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Workshop for students of Film Science and Journalism, where they become familiar with different genres in the print media and their possibilities as well as potential limits of the understanding of documentary film. Lecturers at the workshop (who are the prominent Czech film journalists) will firstly have a theoretical class about their genre, which will be followed by the students’ writing and a practical critical seminar, where the students’ texts are to be analyzed. Workshop has also its international part (held in English), where film publicists from Austria, Poland and France will present their lectures about critical writing on documentary.
Main objectives: to learn critical writing on documentary.
Syllabus
  • daily review
  • film journal review
  • interview
  • report
  • catalogue text
  • essay
Literature
  • DO I. – V. sborník textů o dokumentu (vybrané texty doporučené na jednotlivých přednáškách). Jihlava: JSAF, 2003 – 2007.
  • Dok.revue in Literární noviny
  • GAUTHIER, Guy. Dokumentární film, jiná kinematografie. Translated by Ladislav Šerý. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2004, 507 s. ISBN 8073310236. info
Assessment methods
text on documentary film
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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