FAVKS007 Introduction to Theory of Film

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
This course offers a survey of early and classic film theories from Hugo Münsterberg to Jean Mitry. Assessment: a written test. Literature: Casetti, Francesco: Theories of Cinema 1945-1995 (Austin 1999); Stam, Robert: Film Theory: An Introduction (Malden 2000); Andrew, Dudley J.: The Major Film Theories (New York 1976); Andrew, Dudley J.: Concepts in Film Theory (New York 1984); Stam, Robert & Burgoyne, Robert & Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy: New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Beyond (London, New York 1992); Stam, Robert & Miller, Toby: A Companion to Film Theory (Malden 1999); Neale, Stephen: Genre (London 1980); Aumont, Jacques & Bergala, Alain & Marie, Michel & Vernet, Marc: Aesthetics of Film (Austin 1992); Bordwell, David: Narration in the Fiction Film (Madison 1985); Chatman, Seymour: Coming to Terms: the rhetoric of narrative in fiction and film (Ithaca, New York 1990); Bordwell, David: On the History of Film Style (Cambridge, London 1997); Bordwell, David; Staiger, Janet; Thompson, Kristin: The Classical Hollywood Cinema (New York 1985)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zkouška: písemná zkouška.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: every week.
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