CMAa06 Introduction to Film Theories

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2024
Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
St 12:00–13:40 C34, kromě St 17. 4.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.

Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 40 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 20/40, pouze zareg.: 1/40
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course will analyse significant discourses on cinema as they formed during the decades and across various cultural and national areas. The students will be introduced to wide spectrum of contemporary arguments and will learn to interpret period texts in a wider cultural, social and political context.
Výstupy z učení
After finishing this course, students will be able to formulate the main changes in the theoretical, critical and methodological reflection of cinema, as well as understand them in the relevant historical context. The knowledge provided by the lectures will give the students the capacity to understand how the history of discourses on cinema can be analysed. Besides, they will acquire the competence for understanding the contemporary research tendencies in a wider perspective and recognize continuities, as well as paradigmatic changes.
Osnova
  • 1. Cinema and Modernity
  • 2. Soviet avant-garde, Soviet montage, and Dziga Vertov
  • 3. Film Realism and Neorealism
  • 4. Film Semiotics and Post-Semiotics
  • 5. Cognitivism
  • 6. Auteur Theory
  • 9. Theory of Field vs. Art Worlds
  • 10. Production Studies
  • 11. Representation
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Dziga Vertov: WE: Variant of a Manifesto; On the Significance of Newsreel; kinopravda; The Birth of Kino-Eye; From Kino-Eye t Radio-Eye. In: Annette Michelson (ed.), Kino-Eye. The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of C
    doporučená literatura
  • Janet Staiger, Authorship Approaches. In: David A. Gerstener – Janet Staiger (eds.), Authorship and Film: Trafficking with Hollywood. Routledge, 2003
  • Malcolm Turvey: The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s. MIT Press, 2011
  • Francesco Casetti: Theories of Cinema, 1945-1995. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999
  • Melodrama and modernity : early sensational cinema and its contexts. Edited by Ben Singer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, xiv, 363. ISBN 0231113293. info
  • ABEL, Richard. French cinema : the first wave, 1915-1929. 1st Princeton pbk. print. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987, xxi, 672. ISBN 0691008132. info
Výukové metody
The lectures include discussion over obligatory reading, as well as a collective analysis of textual fragments and film clips.
Metody hodnocení
Brief tests checking the knowledge of seminar reading and understanding of the lecture – 20 points; final written test – 50 points; an outline of a research project – 30 points. To pass the exam, the student has to reach the score of 60% in each of the three categories (i.e., the minimum of 12, 30, and 18 points in the respective tests).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2023, jaro 2025.
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