FAV072 A History of Czech Film Thought

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:35 pracovna
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Syllabus
  • Seminar of analysis of older Czech film thought, including texts by J. E. Purkyně, Václav Tille, Karel a Josef Čapkové, Karel Teige, Vítězslav Nezval, E. F. Burian, Jindřich Honzl, Jan Kučera, Vladislav Vančura, Lubomír Linhart, Jiří Voskovec, Zdeněk Pesánek, Milos Weingart, Arnost Hosek, Alexander Hackenschmied. The seminar will reflect the broad film thought concept, which includes not only texts by film theorists (if one can speak of such specialisation in relation to the Czech environment in the given period) but also theoretical essays by representatives of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, programmatic texts by film artists and journalists, manifestos by avant-garde artistic groups, visionaries utopian projects or moralist criticism from traditionally oriented critics. The internationally known writings of J. E. Purkyně deserve special attention here, representing the anticipatory stage of film theory in the period of pre-history. The above point of departure is supported by the renewed interest of film historiography in the pre-scientific beginnings of film thought. In relation to world development in film studies, from the end of the 1970s and chiefly in the 1980s and 1990s, one can speak of a certain trend in return to the field s pre-history and to the constitution of a partial branch of filmological research, bearing the working title history of film thought. A lengthy period of contempt (occurring after the advent of linguistic and psychoanalytical theoretical systems during the 1960s and 1970s) was followed by the comprehensive re-examination and re-evaluation of pre-semiotic film theory and renewed interest in programmatic or normative texts. Texts which might formerly have been seen as pseudo-scientifically bizarre, ideologically tendentious or moralist acquire fresh importance in the light of new film history, because they help to reconstruct period social consciousness and cultural experience of film, including its potential development, thus far unrealised. The key issue for the cultural history of film is not the artistic value of artefacts, but the reconstruction of the film experience which can be achieved, among others, through the examination of period interpretative strategies. Basic literature: L. Linhart: První estetik filmu Václav Tille. Praha 1968; série raných teoretických textů edičně připravených pro časopis Film a doba (1988 - 1989) J. Jarosem; J. Broz: Alexander Hackenschmied. Praha: ČSFÚ 1973; V. Hradská: Česká avantgarda a film. Praha 1976; L. Linhart: Vznik nezávislé filmové kritiky 20. a 30. let. Film a doba 8, 1962, s. 634 - 639; P. Král: Karel Teige a film. In: Karel Teige a film. Praha: ČSFÚ 1965; Z. Smejkal: Rané práce Karla Smrze o dějinách českého filmu. In: Artur Závodský (ed.): Otázky divadla a filmu I. Brno: Universita J. E. Purkyně 1970, s. 265 - 280; Z. Smejkal: Počátky estetické orientace v historiografii českého filmu. In: A. Závodský (ed.): Otázky divadla a filmu II. Brno: Universita J. E. Purkyně 1971, s. 327 - 350; J. Cieslar: Česká kulturní levice a film ve dvacátých letech. Praha: Texty ČSFÚ 1978; J. Svoboda: Filmový a televizní estetik Jan Kučera. Estetika 21, 1984, s. 234 - 266; I. Klimes: Film v rozhlase. Iluminace 2, 1990, č. 1, s. 65 - 70; J. Jaros: Začátky českého myslení o filmu. In: Filmový sborník historický 2. Praha 1991, s. 213 - 227; V. Merhaut: Filmová kritika zuřivého reportéra. In: Filmový sborník historický 2. Praha 1991, s. 229 - 240; S. Ulver: Estetika filmu Jana Mukařovského. In: Filmový sborník historický 2. Praha 1991, s. 241 - 251; J. Svoboda: Poučení z činnosti Čs. filmového ústavu v letech 1945 - 1950. In: Filmový sborník historický 2. Praha: ČSFÚ 1991, s. 263 - 270; M. Bregant: Filmová studie Vratislava Effenbergra. In: Filmový sborník historický 2. Praha: ČSFÚ 1991, s. 253-262; M. Bregant: Avantgardní tendence v českém filmu. In: Filmový sborník historický 3. Praha: ČFÚ 1992, s. 137 - 174. Assessment: essay.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zápočet: esej.
Language of instruction
Czech
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