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FaVU-TAIFAcad. year: 2026/2027
The course focuses on Hollywood and European art house films from the 1940s to 1970s. We will cover the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, and Czechoslovakia. Special focus will be placed on the political construction of gender reflected in the films themselves and in film theory of the 1970s to present. The course is by no means a survey course of the history of cinema, but it implicitly follows a chronological line.The course will focus on a broad spectrum of aesthetics - from the classical narrative and aesthetic Hollywood format to particular genres including trash and sleaze to the high-modernist forms of neorealism and new waves (notably French and Czechoslovak). In our short survey, we will explore directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, Todd Haynes, Federicco Felinni, Jean-Luc Goddard, Chantal Akerman, Věra Chytilová, Barbara Hammer, Maya Deren, John Waters, Vorlíček-Macourek, Ulrike Ottinger, and others.
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Students have to be able to read academic texts in English - the minimul recommened level is upper-intermediate and higher.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students will be assesed from discussing and writing short, in-class response papers about the assigned texts. The answered quiz questions regarding each text for homework have to be uploaded to the shared drive a day before the class. Before the last class in the semester, students will have to have fulfilled at least 60% of the assignments in order to be able to finish the remaining assignments by the end of the exam period. Students will be assessed from the regular, continuous work during the semester.
Min. 75% attendance at the MS Teams videoconferences, active and relevant participation in discussions regarding the film + accompanying text assigned for the respective week. Apart from spoken discussion, short online writing during the videocinference (chat or some other written form).
Aims
Students will be encouraged to improve their analytical and critical skills on the material of mostly european film classics from the 1950s - 1070s. Students should understand better the visual aspects of film - camera work, editing, the narrative subject vs the spectator, the open or hidden ideology behind the film, etc. Students will improve their language and communication skills.By studying theoretical articles about films they will be aware of the variety of interpretaion tools and strategies. Students will widen their horizons in a discipline which is not customarily taught at a fine art faculty. The course will cultivate students' critical and analytical abilities. Students will be trained to understand the essential points of academic texts, but will at the same time learn to coherently voice their opinions and interpretations of a particular film/text in written form. During the semester, students will write several short tests checking their reading progress.
Study aids
MAYNE, Judith. Cinema and spectatorship. Reprinted. London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-03415-9.
KELLER, Sarah. Barbara Hammer: pushing out of the frame. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, [2021]. ISBN 978-0-8143-4858-1.
WHITE, Patricia (ed.). On Chantal Akerman. Durham: Duke University Press, [2019]. ISBN 978-1-4780-0491-2.
DYER, Richard. Heavenly Bodies. [London]: Taylor & Francis Group, 1986. ISBN 9781283883986.
BORDWELL, David; THOMPSON, Kristin a SMITH, Jeff. Film Art: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill Education, 2023. ISBN 1265205477.
SCONCE, Jeffrey (ed.). Sleaze artists: cinema at the margins of taste, style, and politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8223-3964-9.
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