FAVBPa070 History of the World Cinema II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
3/3/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Pavlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ondřej Pavlík, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Patrycja Astrid Twardowska
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–11:40 C34, except Mon 21. 4. to Sun 27. 4. ; and Fri 21. 2. 9:00–12:40 C34, Fri 28. 3. 9:00–12:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 88 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 75/88, only registered: 0/88
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course provides an overview of the development of world cinema from the emergence of new waves to the present, focusing on its artistic, cultural, technical, and economic transformations. Individual lectures will offer specific cross-sections of national and regional cinemas, considering both shared types of poetics and their relationship to historical and local particularities.
Learning outcomes
After finishing this course, students will have been able to:
understand the importance of New Waves
describe connections between social development and film industry
analyze and interpret works of selected auteurs
be oriented in genre production
explain innovations in audio-visual technologies
critically think about approaches to film history
Syllabus
  • Poetics of Everyday
  • Minimalist and Poetic film
  • Social Realism
  • Political film: contra-cinema, melodrama
  • Wild East & West
  • New Hollywood: generational change in American cinema
  • Action film
  • Extreme cinema
  • Popular extreme film in the US
  • Postmodern film
  • Cinema Europe: European quality film
  • Serialization in film
Literature
    required literature
  • THOMPSON, Kristin and David BORDWELL. Dějiny filmu : přehled světové kinematografie. Translated by Helena Bendová - Jan Bernard - Michal Bregant - Zdeněk Holý - V. První vydání. Praha: Akademie múzických umění, 2007, 827 stran. ISBN 9788071068983. info
    recommended literature
  • KOVÁCS, András Bálint. Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, xii, 427. ISBN 9780226451657. info
  • MONACO, James. Nová vlna : Nouvelle vague :Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2001. 413 s. ISBN 8085883899.
    not specified
  • GODARD, Jean-Luc. Texty a rozhovory. Translated by Helena Bendová - David Čeněk. Vyd. 1. Jihlava: JSAF, 2005, 330 s. ISBN 8090351360. info
  • BELTON, John. Widescreen cinema. Cabridge, Massachusett: Harvard University Press, 1992, viii, 300. ISBN 0674952618. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, film screenings, home study of films, home reading
Assessment methods
The subject will be tested in two interconnected ways. Students will get a number of films to watch every week, of which they will write continuous tests. At least fifty percent success rate in each of these tests will then be a prerequisite for admission to the final written test which, in addition to the lecture, will also include questions related to the texts that will be read during the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
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