FAV051 Virtual Life of Cinema

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
David Norman Rodowick (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D. (deputy)
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
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Course objectives
The title of this lecture derives from the title of Prof. Rodowick's latest, still unfinished book. The lecture will consider the fate of cinema and film studies in the digital era, the notion of 'theory' in film studies, and also the fact that contemporary film theory provides the best framework for understanding contemporary visual culture. In Brno, Prof. Rodowick is going to present theses that have not yet been published in any of his texts. The lectures will be accompanied by loosely related seminars devoted to a close reading of specific texts: the first, second and seventh chapter of his Reading the Figural (available at the department's library). Another recommended material for the seminars is the work by Lev Manovich The Language of New Media (available online: http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu/~manovich/LNM/Manovich.pdf). Dates: 21. 4. - 24. 4. 2003. D. N. Rodowick is a professor and head of the Department of Film Studies at King's College of the University of London. His research interests cover: modernist film theory, contribution of Foucault and Deleuze to thinking about film and audiovisual culture, psychoanalytical and philosophical conceptions of cultural identity, philosophy and aesthetics of digital media, French modern cinema, etc. His recent work deals with possible applications of the notion of 'the figural' to different aesthetic and philosophical issues concerning new media. His publications include numerous essays, as well as four books The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory. University of Illinois Press 1988; The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory. Routledge 1991; Gilles Deleuze's Time-Machine. Duke University Press 1997; Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media. Duke University Press 2001.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 21.4.-24.4.
General note: Podrobnějsí informace na adrese wwwww.phil.muni.cz/divfil/fav/pozvanka_CAVK3.html. Předmět je nabízen téz studentům doktorského studia.
Credit evaluation note: 5 kreditů pro studenty PGS.
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