FAV105 Spirituality in cinema

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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
Course objectives
God exists in some kind of diegetic worlds created by filmmakers. This course offers an introduction to the theory of spirituality in cinema with a special attention to works of Andrey Tarkovski, Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wim Wendres, Béla Tarr and others. We will study images of Christ figure in the world film history, too. Literaure: Agel, Henri, Ayfre, Amédée (1961): Le cinema et le sacré, Paris; Ayfre, Amédée (1969): Cinéma et mystre, Paris; Ayfre, Amédée (1964): Conversion aux images? Paris; Bazin, André (1979): Co je to film? Praha; Bordwell, David (1985): Narration in the Fiction Film, Madison; Bordwell, David (1988): Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, New Jersey; Bordwell, David (1981): The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Berkeley Los Angeles London; Bresson, Robert (1998): Poznámky o kinematografu, Praha; Deleuze, Gilles (1997): Cinema 2. The Time-Image, Minneapolis; Deleuze, Gilles (2000): Film 1. Obraz-pohyb, Praha; Eliade, Mircea (1994): Posvátné a profánní, Praha; Florenskij, Pavel A. (2000): Ikonostas, Brno; Fraser, Peter (1998): Images of the Passion. The Sacramental Mode in Film. Wiltshire; Holloway, Ronald (1977): Beyond the Image. Approaches to the Religious Dimension in the Cinema, Geneva; Johnson, Vida T. & Petrie, Graham (1994): The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky. A Visual Fugue, Bloomington & Indianapolis; Kinovědčeskije zapiski (1992), č. 14 , Moskva; Kwartalnik filmowy, (1995), č. 9-10 Warszawa; Marczak, Mariola (2000): Poetyka filmu religijnego, Kraków; Otto, Rudolf (1998): Posvátno, Praha; Plate, S. Brent (ed) (2003): Representing Religion in World Cinema. Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making, New York Hampshire; Razlogov, Kirill (1982): Bogi i ďjavoly v zerkale ekrana, Moskva 1982; Richie, Donald (1977): Ozu, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London; Sandler, A. M. (ed) (1991): Mir i filmy Andreja Tarkovskogo. Moskva; Schrader, Paul (1972): Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London; Suchánek, Vladimír (2004): A vdechl duši živou Úvod do duchovních souvislostí animovaného a trikového filmu. Olomouc - Dolní Loučky; Suchánek, Vladimír (2002): Topografie transcendentních souřadnic filmového obrazu, Olomouc; Surkova, Olga (1991): Kniga sopostavljenij, Moskva; Tarkovskij, Andrej (1997): Deník 1970-1986, Brno; Tarkovsky, Andrey (1989): Sculpting in Time, Austin; Turovskaja, Majja (1991): Sjem s polovinoj ili, Filmy Andreja Tarkovskogo. Moskva; Valušiak, Josef (2000): Střihovou skladbou k n-té dimenzi, Praha.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Esej.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Autumn 2010, Spring 2014.
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