FAV230 Early audiovisual culture: with a focus on Brno's context

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jakub Klíma (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:10–15:45 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
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand basic aspects of visual culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th century; to describe spacial and temporal contexts of early cinema development including local vaieties; to follow social-culture framework of early cinema exhibition, and last but not least the student should be capable of offering a distinctive interpretation of particular displays of media landscape in 19th century.
Syllabus
  • Brief historical and methodological introduction - cultural and social history of 19th century, considering the "boom" of popular visual culture; new film history and others historiographical methods; mediation, atractions and hyperstimulated modernity (?.
  • Particularities in the realm of early cinema and different form of popular entertainment.
  • Partial discussion over the Czech lands to mass visual culture in the late 19th century.
  • Brno as a case study: chapters from the history of early cinema and audiovisual culture in the area of moravian "Manchaster".
Literature
    required literature
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. (ed.) Nová filmová historie. Antologie současného myšlení o dějinách kinematografie a audiovizuální kultury. Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2004, 528 pp. info
  • Travelling cinema in Europe : sources and perspectives. Edited by Martin Loiperdinger. Frankfurt am Main: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 2008, 222 s. ISBN 9783866000261. info
  • The nineteenth-century visual culture reader. Edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz - Jeannene M. Przyblyski. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2004, xxiii, 405. ISBN 0415308666. info
  • Encyclopedia of early cinema. Edited by Richard Abel. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2005, xxx, 791. ISBN 9780415234405. info
    recommended literature
  • KEMBER, Joe. Marketing modernity : Victorian popular shows and early cinema. 1st pub. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009, viii, 296. ISBN 9780859898010. info
  • Visual delights two : exhibition and reception. Edited by Vanessa Toulmin - Simon Popple. Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2005, 266 s. ISBN 0861966570. info
  • Exotic Europe :reizen in de vroege film. Edited by Connie Betz. Berlin: Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, 2000, 43 s. info
  • Early cinema : space, frame, narrative. Edited by Thomas Elsaesser - Adam Barker. Repr. London: BFI Publishing, 1997, 424 s. ISBN 0851702457. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, homework, reading
Assessment methods
oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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