FAVz004 The Big Picture: Hollywood Cinema from Star Wars to Titanic (and Beyond)

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)
Peter Kramer (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, 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.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
1. Lecture: "Big Pictures: Studying Contemporary Hollywood Through Its Greatest Hits" Reading: "Big Pictures: Studying Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Through Its Greatest Hits", Screen Method: Comparative Readings in Screen Studies, ed. Jacqueline Furby and Karen Randell, London: Wallflower, forthcoming in 2005 Film: Star Wars (1977) 2. Lecture: "The Family-Adventure Movie since 1977" Reading: "Would You Take Your Child To See This Film? The Cultural and Social Work of the Family-Adventure Movie", Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, ed. Steve Neale and Murray Smith, London: Routledge, 1998, pp.294-311 Film: Jurassic Park (1993) or The Lion King (1994) 3. Lecture: "The Fall and Rise of the Family Audience since the 1960s" Reading: "'The best Disney film Disney never made': Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema Since the 1960s", Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, ed. Steve Neale, London: BFI, 2002, pp.183-198 Film: E.T. (1982) 4. Lecture: "The Female Audience and Women's Films since the 1960s" Reading: "A Powerful Cinema-going Force? Hollywood and Female Audiences since the 1960s", Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies, ed. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, London: BFI, 1999, pp.98-112 Film: Ghost (1990) 5. Lecture: "Titanic, Action-Adventure Movies and the Return of the Epic" Reading: "Women First: Titanic, Action-Adventure Films and Hollywood's Female Audience", Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, ed. Kevin Sandler and Gaylyn Studlar, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp.108-131 Film: Titanic (1997)
Syllabus
  • The schedule: Monday (3.4.): 8.30 -10.45 screening (Star Wars), 11.00-12.30 lecture; 12.45 - 15.00 screening (E.T., 120min) Tuesday (4.4.): 10 - 11.35 lecture, 12.00 - 14 screening (The Lion King),15.00-16.40 lecture, 18.30 screening (Ghost - 128 min) Wednesday (5.4.) 11.40-13.15 lecture, c. 15.00 screening (Titanic /194min) Thursday (ž.4.): 10.00-11.35 lecture; 13.20-15.00 seminar
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelná přednáška. Ukončení - kolokvium: esej.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: blokově v týdnu od 3. 4. do 6. 4.
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