CMAa04 Analysis of Audiovisual Form

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture is structured as an introduction to the film analysis as an art form and dynamic system, narrative and non-narrative, fictional and documentary. It focuses predominantly on the film system as the formal subsystem and the stylistic subsystem. Film production and analysis is conceived as a process of solving problems, artistic on the part of filmmakers and research ones on the part of analysts. The lecture is the basis for the understanding of the film work, the filmmaking process and the possibilities of systemic film analysis, developing the intellectual tradition of Russian formalism, Czech structuralism, neo/formalistic film theories, the historical poetics of the cinema, and formal analyses of documentary cinema.
Learning outcomes
After finishing this course, students will have got familiar with:
- the basic tools of cinema as an aesthetic phenomenon, based on a particular filmmaking practice;
- basic tools for systemic analysis of a fictional, as well as documentary film, work as a form;
- tools for inward analysis of the film work in relation to the wider context of production practice, genre or tradition.
Syllabus
  • 1. Film form as an analytical perspective
  • 2. Film form as a set of principles
  • 3. Fictional and non-fictional cinema
  • 4. Film space
  • 5. Film style: mise-en-scene
  • 6. Film style: camerawork
  • 7. Film style: editing
  • 8. Film style: sound
  • 9. Analysis of a fictional film
  • 10. Analysis of a documentary film I
  • 11. Analysis of a documentary film II
  • 12. Film production, various traditions of film practice, ways of classifying fictional and documentary films
Literature
    required literature
  • BORDWELL, David, Kristin THOMPSON and Jeff SMITH. Film art : an introduction. Eleventh edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education, 2017, 542 stran. ISBN 9781259253317. info
  • NICHOLS, Bill. Introduction to documentary (Introduction to docementary). Blooming - Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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