FAVKs002 Out of Space of Theatre: The Way of Hollywood to Households

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, 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
1. Media archaeology; history of exhibition and reception; pragmatics and semio-pragmatics of film (theoretical and methodological introduction). 2. Home exhibition of movies an historical overview (from Edisons Kinetoscope through 8mm digest versions to VCR). 3. Television and Hollywood. The relationship of television and film industry; television screening of Hollywood movies. 4. Film industry and VCR. The war of formats, the role of film industry, establishing of videomarket, movies on videotape. 5. Television, video, home theatre and DVD in households consumption of technology. Non-identity of film: various versions for various media, spaces and audiences. 6. A viewer as a collector and an owner. Reception of films in the space of households; repeat viewing. 7. DVD: the process of market saturation; strategies of marketing and the ways movies are presented on the new format; relations to other media and formats. 8. Library titles on DVD: contextualization of old movies for contemporary market. Case studies: Scarface (De Palma, 1983); Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992); historical epics. 9. Over the ocean on the discs. British movies on American market, American movies in Europe: localization on DVD for national markets. 10. Contemporary Hollywood production on DVD: the way audiences are addressed; product diversification; kontextualzation of movies on DVD; pragmatic analysis of DVD contents.
Syllabus
  • 1. Anne Friedberg: The end of cinema: multimedia and technological change. In: Christine Gledhill Linda Williams (eds.): Reinventing Film Studies. London New York: Arnold 2000; Barbara Klinger: Digressions of the Cinema: Commodification and Reception in Mass Culture. In: James Naremore Patrick Brantlinger: Modernity and mass culture. Bloomington 1991; Siegfried Zielinski, Audiovisons. Cinema and Television as EntrActes in History. Amsterdam 1999. 2. Anthony Slide: Before Video. A History of the Non-Theatrical Film. New York - Westport - London: Greenwood Press 1992; William Whittington: Home Theatre: Mastering the exhibition experience. Spectator 18, . 2, 1998, s. 76-83; Ben Singer: Early Home Cinema and the Edison Home Projecting Kinetoscope. Film History . 2, 1988, s. 37-69. 3. Tino Balio (ed.): Hollywood in the Age of Television. London Sydney Wellington: Unwin Hyman, 1990; John Belton: Widescreen Cinema. Cambridge - London 1992. 4. Julia R. Dobrow (ed.): Social and Cultural Aspects of VCR use. New Jersey London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990; Frederick Wasser: Veni, Vidi, Video. The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. Austin 2001. 5. William Body: New Media and Popular Imagination. Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States. Oxfod - New York: Oxford University Press 2004; Lynn Spigel: Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Chicago: Chicago University Press 1992; Barbara Klinger: The New Media Aristocrats: Home Theater and the Domestic Film Experience. The Velvet Light Trap, . 42, Fall 1998, s. 4-19. 6. Barbara Klingerová: souasný cinefil. Filmové sbratelství v ée po videu. Iluminace 17, . 3, s. 83-104. Gianluca Sergi: Tales of the silent blast: Star Wars and sound. Journal of Popular Film and Television 26, . 1, s. 12-22; Ann Gray: Video Playtime. The Gendering of a Leisure Technology. London New York: Routledge 1992; Uma Dinsmore: Chaos, Order and Plastic Boxes: The Significance of Videotapes for the People Who Collect Them. In: Christine Geraghty (ed.), The Television Studies Book. London New York Sydney Auckland: Arnold; Uma Dinsmore-Tuli: The Pleasures of Home Cinema, or Watching Movies on Telly: An Audience Study of Cinephiliac VCR Use. Screen 41, . 3, 2000, s. 315-327. 8. Gerard Genette: Paratexts. Thresholds of interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997; Pavel Skopal: Staré filmy, nové píbhy. Kontextualizace a kulturní zprostedkování hollywoodských film na DVD. Iluminace 17, . 3, s. 105-126. Kevin S. Sandler Gaylyn Studlar (eds.): Titanic. Anatomy of a blockbuster. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press 1999; Julian Stringer: Raiding the Archive: Film Festivals and the Revival of Classic Hollywood. In: Paul Grainge (ed.), Memory and Popular Film. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press, s. 81-96; Julian Stringer: One Thing Nor the Other. Blockbusters at Film Festivals. In: Julian Stringer (ed.), Movie Blockbusters. New York London: Routledge 2003, s. 202 213. 9. Pavel Skopal: Kolem svta ve 32 jazycích. Lví král a strategie globální lokalizace. Iluminace 17, . 2, s. 31-50. Pavel Skopal: American DVD editions of Working Titles British romantic comedies: Framing of reception and the strategies of cultural appropriation. Jump Cut 48, Spring 2006, v píprav. 10. Kristin Thompson, Fantasy, Franchises, and Frodo Baggins: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood. The Velvet Light Trap, number 52, fall 2003, s. 45-63; Robert Alan Brookey Robert Westerfelhaus: Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet. Critical Studies in Media Communication 19, 2002, . 1, s. 21-43. Additional literature: Caspar Tybjerg: The Presentation of Variant Endings. In: Film and its multiples. Udine: Forum 2003, s. 237-240; Vinzenz Hediger: Putting the Spectators in a Receptive Mood. In: Veronica Innocenti, Valentina Re (ed.), Limina/Le solgie del film. Films Thresholds, Udine: Forum, 2004, s. 291-304; Vinzenz Hediger: Der Amerikanische Kinotrailer seit 1912. Schüren: SchürenVerlag 2001; Vinzenz Hediger, Spaß an harter Arbeit. Der Making-of-Film. In: Vinzenz Hediger Patrick Vorderau, Demnächst in Ihrem Kino. Grundlagen der Filmwerbung und Filmvermarktung. Marburg: Schüren, 332-341; Albert Moran (ed.): Film Policy. International, National and Regional Perspectives. London New York: Routledge 1996; Pavel Skopal: Globální Hollywood a domácí kino. Metodologické výzvy recepních studií. Rozhovor s Barbarou Klingerovou. Iluminace 17, . 3, s. 145-157; Thomas Elsaesser Kay Hoffmann (eds.): Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable? The Screen Arts in the Digital Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 1998; Andrew Darley: Visual Digital Culture. Surface play and spectacle in new media genres. London New York: Routledge 2000.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinn volitelná pednáška. Ukonení - kolokvium: písemný test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Spring 2003.
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