FF:FAVBPa110 Film Studies Research - Course Information
FAVBPa110 Film Studies Research
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Radomír D. Kokeš, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Večeřa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, 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
- Tue 17. 9. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 24. 9. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 1. 10. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 8. 10. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 22. 10. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 29. 10. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 5. 11. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 12. 11. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 3. 12. 12:00–13:40 C34, Tue 17. 12. 12:00–13:40 C34
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- FAVBPA100 Historical research && FAVBPA010 Introduction to Film Studies
- 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
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The seminar focuses on preparing students for proper asking and answering research questions both while preparing a research project and within certain paradigms of film science research.
For these purposes, the students will be provided with proper methodological tools. They will test the usefulness of the tools in the process of a "test research".
Objectives of the course is to provide differentiation and specialization of teaching, practice of formulation and implementation of research projects, improvement and extension of students’ competences, preparation for implementation of stylistically, heuristically and analytically satisfactory graduate work. - Learning outcomes
- After finishing this course, students will have been able to:
- consider the methodological complexity and specificity of research topics from various areas of film history,
- be familiar with basic theoretical and methodological literature to the presented research areas,
- prepare a research project on the cultural, aesthetic and economic history of cinema. - Syllabus
- Students will be acquainted with the broader portfolio of research approaches: cultural history of cinema, economic history of cinema, history of film style and history of film reception. There are three course blocks.
- These areas of research will be gradually introduced by teachers (Radomír D. Kokeš, Pavel Skopal, Michal Večeřa), who focus on economic, cultural and esthetic history. The course will be carried out in three phases in the framework of individual research approaches: (a) methodical preparation, (b) realization of "trial" research according to specified parameters corresponding to model research, i.e. already published research, (c) comparison of the “trial” research results with the model research results.
- This will increase the ability of students to formulate and work efficiently to solve the research problem, extend their methodological competence and help standardize the level of academic writing when formulating research intentions and outputs.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- ALLEN, Robert C. and Douglas GOMERY. Film History: Theory and Practice. McGraw - Hill, 1985. info
- BURKE, Peter. Co je kulturní historie? Praha: Dokořán, 2011
- STAIGER, Janet: Media Reception Studies. New York: NY University Press, 2005
- Explorations in New Cinema History. Edited by Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2011.
- BORDWELL, David. Poetics of cinema. New York: Routledge, 2008, xii, 499. ISBN 9780415977784. info
- Understanding media economics. Edited by Gillian Doyle. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2002, vii, 184 p. ISBN 076196875X. info
- Teaching methods
- 1) Lecture: theoretical preparation in the form of methodological preparation
2) Home study of prescribed literature
3) Seminar: discussion of the literature, assignement of a trial research realized with the help of methodological tools and in accordance with required parameters
4) Home preparation and submission of the assigned project
5) Seminar: comparison of the “trial” research results with the model research results
Seminar work will be carried out within a limited number of seminar groups, which strengthens the didactic effect, as it allows the teacher to focus on the specific problems faced by individual students. - Assessment methods
- The final evaluation will be based on the total sum of the points awarded by the lecturers of each course on the basis of various parameters:
(a) work with given literature,
(b) ability to think critically about the subject in class,
(c) writing a trial project research,
(d) the ability to critically evaluate their own work in comparison with a model research. - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
General note: Určeno k absolvování ve 3. semestru studia. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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