FAV282 Poetics of Cinema - David Bordwell

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D. (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
Thu 10:50–12:25 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
Student will understand particular significant aspects of film researcher David Bordwell's work.
Syllabus
  • 1) Explaining resources of Bordwell's work
  • 2) Outline of his thinking and research career
  • 3) Focusing on his polemics and programmatic texts
Literature
  • BORDWELL, David. Poetics of cinema. New York: Routledge, 2008, xii, 499. ISBN 9780415977784. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989, xvi, 334 s. ISBN 0-674-54336-X. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Ozu and the poetics of cinema. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988, x, 406 s. ISBN 0-691-05516-5. info
  • BORDWELL, David. Narration in the fiction film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, xiv, 370. ISBN 0299101746. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, critical reading
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
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