FAVz003 Cinematic Uses of the Past

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Silvia Lindeperg (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
What are the goals and methods that cinema uses for dealing with history ? In a nutshell, this is the major question underlying this course. Its main focus will be the visual (re)constructions of World War II in French cinema (with the possibility of comparative analysis with German, British, American films). By rebuilding the history of the making of the films, by considering all the layers of their writing (the several versions of the scripts; the contracts and the budgets; the archives of censorship; the process of editing.), we will see that the past was reconstructed by French cinema according to present day concerns (film being at the crossroad of political, commercial, artistic and professional influences and interests). The main aims and objectives of the course will be : - to test several theories and methods of analysing the relationship between film and history, - to analyse the construction of heroic mythologies and to take into account the issues of national identity in French post-war cinema ; - to highlight the fate of film archives by analysing the uses of footage in fiction and documentary cinema (as well as in TV programs) devoted to WW2 ; -to reflect upon the questions of narratives and time in the process of (re)writing the past. " Engagement et création cinématographique : les trajectoires de Louis Daquin, Jean Grémillon et Jean-Paul Le Chanoisin", in Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit (dir.), Les années 50 dans le cinéma européen, Éditions de l'AFHRC, 2001, p 55-98. "Traces, documents, monuments. Usages cinématographiques de l'histoire, usages historiques du film", in Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit et Béatrice Fleury-Villatte(dir.), Les institutions de l'image, Paris, Éditions de l'EHSS, 2001, p 11-22. Ť Enseignement du cinéma et numérique ť, Actes 2. Colloque Numériques et cinéma, Éditions Dujarric/Lindustrie du ręve, 2002 Ť Scénarisation du négationnisme par la télévision française : les temps et logiques dun média ť, in Lucy Mazdon (dir.), French Television, French Cultural Studies, 2002. Ť Un droit de citation des images ť, in : Le Banquet imaginaire, Paris, Gallimard, 2002. Articles Ť Lévaporation du sens de lhistoire. Ŕ propos de Laissez-passer ť, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, février 2002.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelná přednáška. Ukončení - kolokvium: písemný test.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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