FAVBPa08 History of World Cinema I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Viktor Palák (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:50–13:15 C34, Wed 16:40–20:45 C34
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
The main objectives can be summarized as follows: to give basic information about the most important film movements, auteurs and events, especially from the point of view of "traditional" film history. Various other approaches how to study and how to tell the history of world cinema will be confronted. Film will not be approached only as an art form, but also as an industry, whose changing practices of production and distribution effect the moviemaking practice. As such the course will offer the basic frame for more specialized courses on world cinema.
Syllabus
  • Pre-cinematic period, early inventions, methodology
  • Early film as a spectacle
  • Early Hollywood films
  • German film – expressionism
  • Soviet and French film
  • Emergence of sound
  • The studio system in the USA and other countries
Literature
  • GIANNETTI, Louis D. and Scott EYMAN. Flashback : a brief history of film. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001, x, 614. ISBN 0130186627. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles. Film. 1, Obraz-pohyb : Cinéma. 1, L'image-mouvement (Orig.). Translated by Jiří Dědeček. Vyd. v ČR 1. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2000, 298 s. ISBN 80-7004-098-X. info
  • Reinventing film studies. Edited by Christine Gledhill - Linda Williams. London: Arnold, 2000, ix, 464 s. ISBN 0-340-67722-8. info
  • CIV'JAN, Jurij Gavrilovič. Early cinema in Russia and its cultural reception. Edited by Richard Taylor, Translated by Alan Bodger - Tom Gunning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, xxii, 273. ISBN 0226814262. info
  • The Oxford history of world cinema : [the definitive history of cinema worldwide]. Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 1st pub. in pbk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, xxii, 824. ISBN 0198742428. info
  • Cinema and the invention of modern life. Edited by Leo Charney - Vanessa R. Schwartz. Barkeley: University of California Press, 1995, vii, 409. ISBN 0520201124. info
  • THOMPSON, Kristin and David BORDWELL. Film history: an introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994, xliv, 857. ISBN 0070064490. info
  • ALLEN, Robert C. and Douglas GOMERY. Film History: Theory and Practice. McGraw - Hill, 1985. info
Assessment methods
Written test dealing with compulsory reading as well twenty movies from the respective period which will be specified as obligatory.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Předmět se vypisuje jednou za 3 roky, další termíny jsou: jaro 2006, jaro 2009, jaro 2012 atd.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2018.
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