FAVBKalt5 Authorship and Film

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Kos, 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
Sat 3. 11. 14:00–17:40 C34, Sat 24. 11. 14:00–17:40 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 69 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/69, only registered: 0/69, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/69
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce the most significant theoretical conceptions of authorship in film. Lectures will be divided to the two linked parts. The first part will contextualize every conception to the historical context and influential discussions about authorship. The second one will focus on the theoretical structure of the conceptions and explain their analytical devices. The course should help to the bachelor as well as master students, whose thesis are based on the analysis of one or more films of the significant film artist.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- understand the most significant conceptions of film authorship,
- explain theoretical background and analytical devices of each conception,
- contextualize these conceptions both to the history of authorship theory and to the general history of film theory.
Syllabus
  • Lectures will be organized into a series of blocs dedicated to the following topics: 1. Authorship as: origin, personality, signature, a sociology of production 2. Authorship as: reading strategy, a site of discourses, technique of the self, marketing strategy; authorship in a poetological perspective
Literature
    required literature
  • BARTHES, Roland (2006): Smrt autora. Aluze: časopis pro literaturu, filosofii a jiné, č. 3.
  • BORDWELL, David. Poetics of cinema. New York: Routledge, 2008, xii, 499. ISBN 9780415977784. info
  • Authorship and film. Edited by David A. Gerstner - Janet Staiger. New York: Routledge, 2003, xii, 308. ISBN 0415939941. info
    recommended literature
  • BORDWELL, David (1981): The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer. Berkeley – Los Angeles – London: University of California Press.
  • SELLORS, C. Paul (2007): Collective Authorship in Film. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, č. 3, s. 263-271.
  • SARRIS, Andrew (1968): The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
  • A companion to media authorship. Edited by Jonathan Gray - Derek Johnson. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2013, xii, 561 p. ISBN 9781118495278. info
  • CALDWELL, John Thornton. Production culture : industrial reflexivity and critical practice in film and television. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008, x, 451. ISBN 9780822341116. info
    not specified
  • Theories of authorship : a reader. Edited by John Caughie. Repr. London: Routledge, 2001, ix, 316. ISBN 0415025524. info
  • BORDWELL, David, Janet STAIGER and Kristin THOMPSON. The classical Hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985, xv, 506. ISBN 0231060556. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
The written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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