AJL27104 Aesthetic Intensity in Contemporary Anglophone Horror Film

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2024
Rozsah
0/2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Po 23. 9. 12:00–13:40 G03, Út 24. 9. 12:00–13:40 G03, 14:00–15:40 B2.41, St 25. 9. 10:00–11:40 G03, 12:00–13:40 B2.34, Čt 26. 9. 12:00–13:40 G03, 14:00–15:40 D51, Pá 27. 9. 12:00–13:40 G03, 14:00–15:40 B2.43
Předpoklady
AJL01002 Anglický jazyk II || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 10 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 7/10, pouze zareg.: 0/10, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/10
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The intensive course focuses on recognizing, interpreting, and discussing aesthetic intensities found in the selected films by contemporary English, Canadian, and American filmmakers. The selected works, which the filmmakers in question not only directed but also wrote and produced, all in their own way present highly stylized, thematically involved, and vividly expressive aesthetics. The assigned films are chosen for the intensity with which they enfold and envelop their reflection of reality in the genre-defining aesthetic evocation of anxiety. The assigned readings accompanying the films are chosen as thematic supplements, suggesting a connection to the anglophone literary history of aesthetic thematization of aesthetic intensity. The overarching aim of this intensive course is to cultivate the student’s sensitivity to thematic structure and emergent meaning by way of drawing attention to the aesthetic intensity of the imagery which expresses them. The intensive course format will be employed in order to confront the students with aesthetically intense films and to invite and encourage them to react and produce sensible commentary in the shortly following discussion session. This should enhance the student’s ability to comfortably produce sensible commentary in future studies, research, publications, and teaching practice.
Osnova
  • Introduction to the intensive course (single session): Ari Aster – The Strange Thing about the Johnsons (short, 2011)
  • Gendered intensity (projection and discussion sessions): Alex Garland – Men (2022) / D. H. Lawrence – “Nathaniel Hawthorne and ‘The Scarlet Letter’” (1923)
  • Phallic intensity (projection and discussion sessions): Robert Eggers – The Lighthouse (2019) / Herman Melville – “The Bell-Tower” (1855)
  • Drugged intensity (projection and discussion sessions): Panos Cosmatos – Mandy (2018) / Thomas de Quincey – excerpt from Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge – “Kubla Khan” (1816)
  • Bodily intensity (projection and discussion sessions): David Cronenberg – Crimes of the Future (2022) / Franz Kafka – “In the Penal Colony” (1919)
Výukové metody
Please note that the scheduled sessions in room G03 are the projection sessions and that the discussion sessions will follow shortly afterwards in the SAC room at KAA.
Metody hodnocení
60% regular attendance and active participation in discussions + 40% a viewer’s diary, mapping the students’ engagement with the assigned materials in something similar to four brief response papers, MLA formatting, min. BA 1500 words / MA 2000 words
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/23-24/course/view.php?id=8141
The link leads to an ELF e-learning course where all assigned films and texts can be located. In addition, there is a backup link there to the G-Drive repository.
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/predmet/phil/podzim2024/AJL27104