FAVz045 Industry of Prestige (konference SIECE IV)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Trnka, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: 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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain how cultural prestige operates in media industries of East-Central Europe.
Syllabus
  • The course consists of lectures, panels and discussions of the Fourth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE). Speakers will include internationally renowned scholars such as András Bálint Kovács, Francesco Pitassio, Miroslaw Przylipiak, Balázs Varga, Marcin Adamczak, Constantin Parvulescu and many others. Final program of the conference which will be published in late September / early October.
  • SIECE IV shifts attention from the materiality of cultural production to the media industries’ generation and dissemination of both symbolic capital and cultural power. Prestige plays an important role in a sphere where marketing decisions routinely influence media content and its reception, where festivals and awards are ever more important, and where the distinction between texts proper and promotional paratexts is becoming increasingly blurred. The production and dispersal of symbolic capital is also central to East-Central European media industries’ struggle for visibility on international markets. Accordingly, and inspired by both Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural production and James F. Englishʼs The Economy of Prestige, this conference considers how markers of cultural value are mobilized in relation to particular institutions, initiatives, people, traditions, works, and awards in the region. The conference also considers how this phenomenon has operated under different political regimes and across various national and regional formations, and how it shapes East-Central European media’s location in today’s transnational media landscape.
  • Potential topics for papers and panels include:
  • - Artistic movements, canons, traditions, and brand-name auteurs
  • - Schools, institutes, associations, and other media organizations
  • - Festival events and awards
  • - Cultural intermediaries: commentators, impresarios, arbiters of taste
  • - Socio-historical forms of cultural value and taste
  • - Discourses of art, quality, and public service, and cultural elitism
  • - The cultivation of fame and esteem
  • - The impact of disputes and scandals
  • - Promotion and publicity
Literature
  • Iluminace 4/2012, 3/2013, 3/2014
Teaching methods
series of conference papers
Assessment methods
written report
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
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