FF:FAVBKa11 Film Seminar B - Course Information

FAVBKa11 Film Seminar B (connected with Introduction to Film Theory)

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

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

Sat 27. 9. 13:20–16:35 C34, Sat 18. 10. 13:20–16:35 C34

Prerequisites (in Czech)

FAVBKa10 Seminar A || FAVBPa10 Seminar A

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

• Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, B-OT) (2)

Course objectives

In the first part of the seminar series, we will discuss the narratological model of David Bordwell. The second part will focus on various modes of the European modernist cinema and the Bordwell s concept will be compared with the approach of the Hungarian narratologist Andras Balint Kovacs.

Syllabus

• - theoretical and methodological introduction - classical narration - art-cinema narration - historical-materialist narration - parametric narration - modernism in cinema - style and form in modernist cinema

Literature

required literature
• KOVÁCS, András Bálint. Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, xii, 427. ISBN 9780226451657. info

not specified
• David Bordwell: Narration in the Fiction Film. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985

Teaching methods

Class presentation and discussion.

Assessment methods

graded credit: written essay, 5 pages

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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