FAVKh010 Film criticism: a seminar

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, 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 24. 10. 14:00–15:40 C34, Sat 21. 11. 14:00–15:40 C34, Sat 5. 12. 14:00–15:40 C34, Sat 9. 1. 14:00–15:40 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 43 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/43, only registered: 0/43, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/43
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course of film criticism is based on contemporary audiovisual production. We practice various genres of critical writing related to the everyday praxis of mass media. The student hand in an article about a first-run-movie every week, usually from the current Czech production; texts are analysed and classified from filmological, journalistic and linguistic aspects as well as in accordance with articulation of their critical gesture and argumentation.
At the end of the course students should be able to articulate their critical opinions in various genres of critical writing; they will get informations about their dispositions for activities of film criticism.
Syllabus
  • Introduction into film criticism
  • A review for newspaper
  • Reviews for weeklies
  • Film criticism on websites
  • Reviews for film review
  • Festival papers
  • A short essay or a column
  • Classification
Literature
    required literature
  • BLAŽEJOVSKÝ, Jaromír. Oko. srdce, mozek, pero a pěst. Emiprické poznámky před deštivou komnatou (Eye, Heart, Brain, Pen and Fist. Empirical Notes before the Rainy Room). Cinepur. Sdružení přátel Cinepuru, 2015, vol. 21, No 100, p. 62-64. ISSN 1213-516X. info
    not specified
  • CIESLAR, Jiří. Kočky na Atalantě. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění, 2003, 572 s. ISBN 80-85883-89-9. info
  • CIESLAR, Jiří. Concettino ohlédnutí : portréty, kritiky a eseje : 1975-1995. Vyd. 1. Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 1996, 310 s. ISBN 8070040831. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, watching films, homeworks, e-learning, e-mail correspondence, reading texts in the Homework Vault, reciprocal correction of homeworks.
Assessment methods
Classified inclusion: nine critical texts during the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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