FAVz030 Screen Industries in East-Central Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Marie Barešová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Lukáš Skupa, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
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
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
To understand and critically discuss key principles of the East-Central-European screen industries, i.e. regional production, distribution and exhibition systems and their professional communities.
Syllabus
  • Screen Industries in East-Central Europe
  • International Conference
  • November 11th-13th, 2011
  • Sponsored by the Czech Society of Film Studies and The Visegrad Fund
  • Department of Film and Audiovisual Culture Studies
  • Room D22
  • Conference organizer: Petr Szczepanik (szczepan@phil.muni.cz) in collaboration with the Czech Society of Film Studies (www.cefs.cz)
  • Conference Management: Adéla Kokešová (k.deli@seznam.cz)
  • Cinema and television in East-Central Europe have been long studied primarily in terms of national heritage, ideology and collective or individual styles, with textual analysis as a dominant method and so-called new waves as privileged topic. There is surprisingly little literature about how film and television functioned on its daily basis, especially on industrial modes of production, distribution and exhibition, as well as on professional communities of media workers – apart from narrow selection of prominent directors, screenwriters and actors. The Brno conference is – as far as we know – the first regional intervention into the field of media industry studies and production studies, disciplines which have recently burgeoned in the US and Western Europe.
  • The term of East-Central Europe is defined – for the purpose of the conference – both geographically and geopolitically: as post-socialist countries of the Central Europe and former Austrio-Hungarian monarchy, or, as so-called “Visegrad” countries. However, there are at least two more national cinemas which need to be included to fully understand how the regional media industries developed: the former Soviet Union and East Germany, with the first one serving as a prominent model for nationalization and so-called Sovietization after World War Two, and the second one becoming a frequent business partner in co-production and international distribution. Last but not least, the Soviet power center, and the Soviet model of “globalization”, has to be balanced with influences of global Hollywood which of course reached, with varying intensity, all the countries in the region.
  • The conference will investigate all the facets of regional screen industries and their professional communities – local and transnational, historical and contemporary, economic or cultural, social or political. It will present original research in a lively mixture of conceptual papers and empirical case studies. The outcomes of the conference will be published in a special English-language issue of the Czech film-studies journal “Iluminace” (www.iluminace.cz).
  • Preliminary list of contributors:
  • keynote speaker: Aniko Imre (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • confirmed papers:
  • Marcin Adamczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
  • Varga Balázs (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Šimon Bauer (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
  • Petr Bilík (Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • Daniel Bird (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
  • Jindřiška Bláhová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
  • John Cunningham (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
  • Ivan Klimeš (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Valérie Pozner (French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France)
  • Marsha Siefert (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
  • Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Literature
  • East european cinemas. Edited by Anikó Imre. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005, xxvi, 259. ISBN 041597268X. info
Teaching methods
Students will attend a prestigious international conference on Nov. 11-13.
Assessment methods
Obligatory attendance at the conference, a conference report.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught: every week.
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