ZUR393n The American West and the Western Film

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2016
Rozsah
1/1. 4 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Jean Paule Retzinger, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Pavel Sedláček (pomocník)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc.
Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
každý lichý čtvrtek 15:15–16:45 Studio 527 a každý sudý čtvrtek 15:15–16:45 AVC
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This course follows a roughly historical approach to the Western as a distinctive film genre, exploring its roots in relationship to the frontier myth in American culture and tracing its development within the US and abroad. The class will examine the defining characteristics of the genre and key themes worked out in Westerns, from early films to more recent “revisionist” US Westerns. We will also investigate what happens to the Western when it is produced outside of the US in nations that don't share a similar history of frontier expansion fostered by an ideology of “manifest destiny.” Non-U.S. films will include Leone´s “spaghetti Westerns” of Italy, the Indian ("Bollywood") “curry western” Sholay (1975), and Lipský´s Western parody Limonádový Joe (1964) from the Czech Republic.
Osnova
  • CLASS SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNED READINGS. DATE, TOPIC and Readings: 18 February - Intro to the course. 25 February - The Frontier Myth; Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in America, Chs. I and IX; Will Wright, "The Structure of Myth" from Six-Guns and Society. Film scenes: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. 3 March - Genre 1; Will Wright, "The Structure of the Western Film" pp. 29-58 from SGS. Film scenes: High Noon, Stagecoach. 10 March - Genre 2; Will Wright, "The Structure of the Western Film" pp. 59-123 from SGS. Film scenes: Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 17 March - Gender; Jane Tompkins, "Women and the Language of Men" from West of Everything. Pam Cook, "Women and the Western" in Kitses and Rickman Blake Lucas, "Saloon Girls and Ranchers´ Daughters" in Kitses and Rickman. Film scenes: High Noon, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma. 24 March - Landscape; Jane Tompkins, "Landscape". Thomas Klein, "Where the Wild West Can Be Staged" in Klein et al. Film scenes: Stagecoach, True Grit. 31 March - Heroes &Villians / Cowboys & Indians / Cattle & Horses; Will Wright, "Individuals and Values: The Classical Plot". Tompkins, "Horses" and "Cattle". Film scenes: Red River, Shane, Dances with Wolves. 7 April - Revisionist US Westerns I; Janet Thumim, "'Maybe He´s Tough...': Masculinity and In/competence in Unforgiven" in Kitses and Rickman. Film: Unforgiven. 14 April - Revisionist US Westerns II; Reading: TBA. Film: Brokeback Mountain or No Country for Old Men or The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / 2007. 21 April - The Western Abroad I / The Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone Edward Buscombe, "Is the Western about American History?" in Klein et al. Marcia Landy, "'He Went Thataway': The Form and Style of Leone´s Italian Westerns" in Kitses and Rickman. Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. 28 April - The Western Abroad II / Asia; Cho, Michelle. "Genre, Translation, and Transnational Cinema: Kim; Jee-woon´s The Good, the Bad, the Weird". Film: Sholay. 5 May - The Western Abroad III / Parody; Karje, Antti-Ville, "The Joking Injuns". Film: Limonadovy Joe. 12 May - Wrap-up and In-class FINAL EXAM.
Metody hodnocení
Assigned readings will all be available as .PDFs on the course website. The syllabus contains a complete list of course readings. Students will be expected to come to class each week having already completed the readings assigned for that week and prepared to participate in class discussions. Students will also be required to view some films on their own in advance of class meetings. Writing assignments for the course include FIVE 1-2 page Reading Response papers during the semester. These response papers may be used to discuss and analyze either a key concept/argument from an assigned reading or a specific film scene. Please see separate assignment prompt detailing the expectations for the response papers. The response papers are due are the start of class on those dates followed by an asterisk on the syllabus. Additionally there will be a final exam given in class on the last day. FINAL GRADES for the course will be calculated as follows: FIVE Reading Response papers @ 10 percent each 50, Exam 30, Attendance and Participation 20.
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