FAVBPa03 Introduction to Theory of Film II

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:05 C34
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
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Course objectives
The course is devoted to the post-WWII theoretical approaches to cinema and its reception. We will approach the histories of film histories from a specific point of view: we will focus on the institutional conditions under which the main theoretical influences broke through. The course will ask such questions as: what universities, research centres, or journals helped to establish the influence of sociology and psychoanalysis to cinema, why cinema has become the object of interest for cultural studies, what was the role of film festivals or conferencies for establishing of feminist approach or "new film history"?
Syllabus
  • Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt: film and sociology, Frankfurt school Moscow and post-war Italy: socialist realism, neo-realism Paris: auteur theory London: film and psychoanalysis Birmingham: cultural study Wisconsin: reception studies, kognitivism Brighton: „new film history" and "new cinema history"
Literature
  • David A. Gerstner - Janet Staiger (ed.): Autorship and Film. Routledge 2003
  • Martin Jay: The Dialectical Imagination: A history of the Frankfurt school and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950. University of California Press, 1996
  • CASETTI, Francesco. Filmové teorie 1945-1990. Translated by Helena Giordanová. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2008, 406 s. ISBN 9788073311438. info
  • HANÁKOVÁ, Petra. Pandořina skříňka, aneb, Co feministky provedly filmu? Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 141 s. ISBN 9788020015518. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
Assessment: a written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: Předmět se vypisuje jednou za 3 roky.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2009, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2018.
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