US_49 Chapters from Film History I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Václav Březina (lecturer), Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:35 zruseno D22
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 190 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/190, only registered: 0/190, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/190
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
This course is focused on World Cinema from its emergence to 1945. Film is and has been simultaneously art form, technology, economic institution, and cultural product. We come to understand better how that system operates and how it changed over time. We are guided by concept of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Our principal question are: how uses of the film medium changed or become normalized over time? How have the conditions of the film industry-production,distribution, and exhibition-affected the uses of the medium? How have international trends emerged in the uses of the film medium and in the film marked?
Syllabus
  • 1. Beginnings of film
  • 2. D.W. Griffith, Ch. Chaplin #. Silent film: Germany / Scandinavia / France
  • 3. Soviet avantgarde
  • 4. Sound film, genre film, studio system
  • 5. Citizen Kane
  • 6. Czech cinema
  • 7. Neorealism
  • 8. Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa
  • 9. Hitchcock, Bunnel, Antonioni
  • 10. Eastern Europe after 1953
  • 11. Predecessors of the New wave
  • 12. New wave
Literature
  • MONACO, James. Jak číst film : svět filmů, médií a multimédií : umění, technologie, jazyk, dějiny, teorie. Translated by Tomáš Liška - Jan Valenta, Illustrated by David Lindroth. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 2004, 735 s. ISBN 9788000014104. info
  • BILÍK, Petr. Panorama českého filmu. Vyd. 1. Olomouc: Rubico, 2000, 514 s. ISBN 80-85839-54-7. info
  • BROŽ, Jaroslav and Myrtil FRÍDA. Historie československého filmu v obrazech : 1930-1945. 1. vydání. Praha: Orbis, 1966, 293 stran. info
  • SMRŽ, Karel. Film. Podstata, historický vývoj, technika, možnosti a cíle kinematografu. Praha: Prometheus, 1924. info
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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